A previously unknown species of Australopithecus have been discovered in Ethiopia’s Afar region, coexisting with early Homo ...

When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the ...

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, according to ...

It also "muddies the waters" on longstanding assumptions that early humans dispersed from Africa, said Michael Petraglia, ...

Fossil bite mark analysis with AI shows early humans were prey for leopards, reshaping what we know about human evolution.

Scientists digitally reconstructed a 1 million-year-old skull unearthed in China. The analysis suggests it may have belonged ...

A crushed million-year-old skull found in China that has been digitally reconstructed reopens a debate in human evolution.

For decades, textbooks painted a dramatic picture of early humans as tool-using hunters who rose quickly to the top of the ...

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull rewrites our understanding of human evolution, scientists have claimed.

The findings have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said.