A new analysis of enigmatic skulls from the Republic of Georgia suggest that Homo erectus wasn't the only human species to ...

A 26-ft (8-m) deep excavation in Indonesia has revealed that humans and a hominin species that pre-dates humans used the same ...

The legendary “Little Foot” fossil may be an entirely new human ancestor. An international team of scientists led by ...

The textbook version of human evolution has long held that Homo erectus was the pioneering species to venture beyond Africa's borders around 1.8 million years ago. However, new analysis of five skulls ...

Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a ...

Understanding this crucial point in human history has focused on the Dmanisi Hominid Archaeological Site in Georgia where ...

For decades, the story seemed settled: one early human species left Africa and spread across the world. But a new study ...

Many known hominin fossils defy species classification, with the most famous example being the ever-enigmatic Denisovans. A study by anthropologists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the ...

One of the most complete human ancestor fossils ever found may belong to an entirely new species, according to an ...