Science Fossil teeth yield oldest genetic material from extinct human species Homo antecessor was closely related to Homo sapiens, Denisovans and Neanderthals, analysis finds ...

A timeless question has always fascinated scientists who study the past. Which comes first, the new behavior or the physical ...

New research on ancient teeth from China suggests humans and Homo erectus interbreeding shaped early Asian populations.

Dozens of fossil human teeth from a cave in China show that people lived in southern Asia more than 80,000 years ago, researchers report. Before this, the earliest well-dated fossils firmly linked ...

Fossilized teeth discovered in China challenge conventional views of human evolution, revealing a unique blend of primitive ...

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

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

Archaeologists discovered stone tools at least a million years old on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, but exactly who made ...

A trove of 47 fossil human teeth from a cave in southern China is rewriting the history of the early migration of our species out of Africa, indicating Homo sapiens trekked into Asia far earlier ...

Fossil bones and teeth found in the Philippines have revealed a long-lost cousin of modern people, which evidently lived around the time our own species was spreading from Africa to occupy the ...

Paleontologists unearthed fossils in the Grand Canyon dating back more than 500 million years that offer a new look into a ...