In a discovery that rewrites our understanding of human evolution, scientists have unearthed extraordinarily rare fossils on the Indonesian island of Flores, including an adult limb bone so tiny it ...

The last common ancestor of both the Homo sapiens and Homo neanderthalensis is now seen as Homo ... It seems like approximately 800,000 years ago Homo heidelbergensis emerged for the ...

Homo erectus arose around 2 million years ago and moved from Africa to regions of Asia and Europe, with the last individuals dying out around 100,000 years ago, said Potts.

In a cave in northern Spain, researchers have discovered pieces of a fossilized face belonging to an ancient human ancestor — the oldest human fossil ever found in Western Europe.

A set of footprints found at the site of Koobi Fora in Kenya reveals that our ancestor Homo erectus coexisted with a now-extinct bipedal hominin, Paranthropus boisei, 1.5 million years ago.

Washington — A fossil of a partial face from a human ancestor is the oldest in western Europe, archaeologists reported Wednesday.. The incomplete skull — a section of the left cheek bone and ...

New fossil discovery of an early human ancestor reveals that it walked upright, just like humans Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was also ...

Some 370 million years ago, the great-great-great (and on and on and on) vertebrate ancestor of Homo sapiens—a weird-looking salamander creature called a tetrapod—ditched the water for land ...

Two species of ancient human relatives crossed paths 1.5 million years ago. Fossilized footprints in Kenya captured the moment, according to a new study.

A cache of human-like fossils from China has perplexed scientists for decades, defying explanation or categorization. The skull fragments, teeth, jaws and other remains unearthed at different ...

The origin of complex eukaryotic cells, of the type found in all plants and animals, is shrouded in mystery. Now, strange microbes from wetlands in China are helping us to understand when they ...