Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi reveals our incredible story across 300,000 years of human evolution in the upcoming new ...

The results were nothing short of astonishing. Maba 1 displayed a combination of features from different species of ancient humans. Researchers found characteristics of Homo erectus, traces of ...

In this new series, Human, paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi reveals our incredible story across 300,000 years of human ...

Homo erectus, which many believe was an ancestor of modern Homo sapiens, is thought to have died out 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.

Archaeologist Harold Berghuis of Leiden University led the team that conducted the research, finding two Homo erectus skull fragments between 162,000 and 119,000 years old. These fossils were ...

One of the oldest examples comes from Homo erectus, who 1.7 million years ago made symmetrical stone tools, such as Acheulean bifaces. These tools required advanced mental planning, so a basic ...

When Homo sapiens appeared some 300,000 years ago, at least six other human species already shared the planet. Here, in the studio of paleoartist John Gurche, are model representations of those ...

THE face of humans’ most mysterious ancestor has finally been uncovered after 217,000 years. The discovery proves that the ‘Dragon Man’ of China is indeed a Denisovan, a long lost… ...

An enigmatic skull recovered from the bottom of a well in northeastern China in 2018 sparked intrigue when it didn’t match any previously known species of prehistoric human.

The man never retrieved his treasure, and the cranium, with one tooth still attached in the upper jaw, remained unknown to science for decades until his relatives learned about it before his death.