In a discovery that reshapes our understanding of early human migration in Southeast Asia, scientists have recovered the ...

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Scientists have recovered genetic material from a skull found in northeastern China, which they say reveals the most complete ...

In the summer of 2021, a team of five Chinese researchers stirred up some controversy by suggesting that an unusual skull ...

The new study, published in Cell by Qiaomei Fu and colleagues, is the first to definitively link a nearly complete human ...

Scientists found fossils from a new species of human that’s 130,000 years old. By Chris Smith. Published Jun 25th, 2021 9:37PM EDT. Image: Bruder/Adobe.

Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra.

We looked at fossil teeth from hominins (humans and our closest extinct relatives) from the Omo Valley in Ethiopia, where we can see traces of more than two million years of human evolution, as well ...

During an excavation on Morocco’s Mogador Island, archaeologists discovered two Early Cretaceous fossils estimated to be between 145 and 140 million years old that were mixed in with ancient Roman ...