Scientists discover the oldest human face in Western Europe, dating back more than a million years, in a cave in northern ...

New fossil evidence out of Africa strongly suggests that two species of hominin coexisted with each other over one million ...

"There are a lot of firsts associated with Homo erectus," Karen Baab, a biological anthropologist at Midwestern University in Glendale, Arizona, told Live Science. "We have the first evidence of ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years earlier than thought and in Asia, not Africa, a study found. The ...

Dredging operations off the coast of Java, Indonesia, unearthed a treasure trove of thousands of animal fossils, including those of a previously unknown Homo erectus population. A team of scientists ...

There were at least three types of early humans: Homo habilis, Homo rudolfensis and the best documented species, Homo erectus ...

Homo erectus was the longest-living human species in history, thriving for nearly 2 million years. From Africa to Asia, they ...

Researchers say the remains are “a mosaic of primitive and derived traits never seen before.” Dental remains dating back 300,000 years, which were discovered at a well-known Chinese archaeological ...

However, because infant specimens are extremely rare in the fossil record, scientists were until now unsure if these ...

OROZMANI, Georgia — Archaeologists in Georgia have unearthed a 1.8-million-year-old jawbone belonging to an early species of human that they say will shed light on some of the earliest prehistoric ...

Four lifelike reconstructions of prehistoric humans have been unveiled — including a model of a species often dubbed "the hobbit," which, as an adult, was about the same height as a modern 4-year-old.