The oldest human fossils found outside of Africa suggest our species may have left that continent 200,000 years ago. You may recall that 2017 was the year that the conventional timeline for human ...

A great deal has happened in recent history that changes everything we thought we knew about the dawn of our species. Now, a newly discovered human fossil ... making it the oldest member of ...

Archeological findings have surpassed previous records set by Spain and Turkey with this region now being named the oldest European site yielding human fossils.

This age means the footprints may have been left by Homo antecessor, an early human species known to be present in Europe at that time. Not only are the footprints the earliest evidence yet of humans ...

The 3.18-million-year-old remains of Lucy, one of the oldest human ancestors, will be displayed in Europe for the first time ever.

Fossilized bones discovered decades ago and hailed at the time as the oldest human remains found in Japan turn out to be from a prehistoric bear, a new analysis shows. Not only that, the items are ...

It was first thought that SK 15 belonged to the never seen before Telanthropus capensis species but since the 1960s it was believed that it came from the early human species known as Homo ergaster.

There have been many species similar to us that have lived over the last ... including the discovery of the oldest human footprints in Europe. In 2013, erosion of the Norfolk coastline exposed a ...

The most primitive hominid yet found, this species has more chimpanzee-like features than any other human ancestor. Ardipithecus ramidus may have walked upright. Other fossils discovered with A.