Now, according to The Guardian, a new analysis has now found the skull fragment to be the oldest human fossil ever found ...

The diversity within these fossils reflects the complexity of human evolution in eastern Asia ... The Juluren’s distinct anatomy and evolutionary timeline warrant a separate designation ...

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The fossil, called Penghu 1, is one of the few known pieces of physical evidence from the Denisovans, extinct relatives of ...

We know more facts about Neanderthals than any other extinct humans. Many thousands of their artefacts and fossils have been found, including several nearly complete skeletons. We also know about ...

Deep inside a Portuguese cave, the fossil of a human cranium lay buried for 400,000 years, surrounded by a smattering of stone tools and animal remains. A team of archeologists recently retrieved ...

The short, thick mandible has unusually large teeth and a strong jaw compared to other human fossils found in East Asia, according to anthropologists. The discovery suggests that it belonged to an ...

The human lineage split from the chimpanzee lineage around seven million years ago. Fossil evidence relating to the earliest hominins that lived after this split is scarce, but it provides important ...

finally leading to human life. Palaeontologists can date the rocks containing fossils so that these fossils can be placed accurately on a timeline to show how a species can change or develop over ...

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.

Earlier research had generated age estimates for fossil-bearing sediment in the German pit. Despite those differences, “upright walking preceded the great ape/human split and likely started in ...