Could a Moroccan cave hold a crucial piece of the puzzle of human origins? Hominin fossils dating back 773,000 years discovered in the country are bringing new evidence to the debate about the last ...

In 2021, scientists made a breakthrough when they classified a 140,000-year-old skull from Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, as ...

This photo taken on Dec 6, 2024 shows human skull fossil fragments displayed at the exhibition hall of Hualongdong site in Dongzhi county of Chizhou city, East China's Anhui province. [Photo/Xinhua] ...

HEFEI — Chinese scientists have unearthed dozens of human fossils dating back 300,000 years, the earliest evidence in East Asia of the evolutionary transition toward Homo sapiens, the species to which ...

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CENIEH is part of the international team publishing in Nature Ecology & Evolution a comprehensive review of two million years of fossil and ...

Discover the latest news, features and articles about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ...

New genomic research suggests our species descended from a deep fusion between two ancient lineages — one of them a mysterious “ghost.” ...

A TERRIFYING new dinosaur with a swordlike crest has been compared to a beast from “hell”. The prehistoric predator was found in a remote part of the Sahara after 95 million years in a ...

Our DNA is like a treasure trove that holds secrets from deep time, whispers from ancient kin who vanished without a trace yet gave us who we are toda.

New research dates Homo erectus skulls in China to nearly 1.8 million years ago, making them the oldest hominin fossils in East Asia.

Fresh dating of Homo Erectus fossils suggests ancient humans reached East Asia far earlier than once believed.