With continued excavation at Swartkrans, researchers hope to uncover more of SWT1/HR-2’s skeleton, which could further ...

Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was also extremely small and ...

The mountainous region of Spain where the fossils were found has been an important locale for paleoanthropology. In the mid-1990s, scientists identified an early human relative known as Homo ...

A fossil of a partial face from a human ancestor is the oldest in western Europe, archaeologists reported Wednesday. The ...

Early human migration timeline into South America has stirred debate. Researchers have long argued about when these first ...

Fossils are like time capsules, offering us a rare chance to glimpse the distant past. Over the years, a number of ancient ...

Million-year-old face fossil sheds new light on ancient human migrations - Scientists say a fossil of a partial face from a ...

Humans stand apart from many other primates by taking more time to mature, relying on a supportive network during a long ...

A fragment of a face from a human ancestor is the oldest in Western Europe, according to the results published Wednesday in the journal Nature.

2024 — Could social bonds be the key to human big brains? A study of the fossil teeth of early Homo from Georgia dating back 1.77 million years reveals a prolonged childhood despite a small ...

A newly discovered fossil from a human ancestor, estimated to be between 1.1 and 1.4 million years old, has further complicated the already tangled story of human evolution. Found in northern ...

The discovery is particularly important as it places the arrival of the first populations in Europe before the 'Homo ...