A human species arrived on the island of Sulawesi in southeast Asia more than 800,000 years earlier than previously known.

One possible member of the new species H. juluensis isn’t a newcomer to science by any stretch. Denisovans—first identified ...

The results left no room for doubt: these were not human bones. “The fossils once thought to be human have now been confirmed to come from an ancient brown bear (Ursus arctos) “.

Seven newly discovered stone tools, dating to between 1.04 and 1.48 million years ago, were found on the Indonesian island of ...

Paleontologists unearthed fossils in the Grand Canyon dating back more than 500 million years that offer a new look into a time when complex life emerged on Earth.

A handful of stone tools found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi has pushed back the date that human relatives arrived in ...

In 1929, archaeologists discovered the 140,000-year-old skeleton of a young girl in Skhūl Cave. The researchers believed her ...

These fossils, they say, belong to a distinct group with its own role in the human family tree. Timeline and morphological groupings considered by Christopher Bae and coworkers (2023).

Scientists made a surprising discovery when studying fossils of a distant human relative – Paranthropus robustus ...

Many of these fossils had been overlooked because when they were first unearthed in the 1970s and 1980s, commonly held beliefs about human origins were vastly different from today’s theories.

We want to preserve fossils for future generations as much as possible—and technology can be a huge help here. Micro-CT works like the medical CT scans doctors use to peek inside the human body.