Ancient Fossilized Jawbone Reveals Unknown Human Ancestor, Belongs to 1.4 Million-Year-Old 'Nutcracker Man’ Researchers ...

Researchers Categorize New Human Species After Fossils Found in China Reveal a Group That Vanished 50,000 Years Ago Extensive analysis of remains found in different sites in China has led researchers ...

New research indicates that hominins migrated into Eurasia approximately 200,000 years earlier than previously believed, ...

In 1924 an Australian anthropologist and anatomist, Raymond Dart, acquired a block of calcified sediment from a limestone ...

“The last 50 years of fossil discoveries have made it clear that there wasn’t a single hominin lineage around at any point in the past (making humans today quite unique),” said Carrie ...

Research led by the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at Ohio University has found evidence of hominin activity at a Romanian fossil site dating to at least 1.95 million years ago.

Dobos admitted that without actual hominin fossils, “everything remains at the level of supposition,” but he said that the ...

New research shows that ancient humans, Australopithecus, had a plant-based diet, challenging long-held meat-eating theories.

Paranthropus capensis, a “gorilla-like” human relative that lived in southern Africa some 1.4 million years ago. A new study focuses on a hominin jawbone known as SK 15 that was unearthed in 1949 at ...

Researchers have extracted ancient proteins from australopithecine fossils and determined whether they were male or female — a first for human evolution studies.

Researchers say they have identified a new species of ancient hominin, Homo juluensis, that could help solve another big mystery of human evolution. Their proposal is sparking debate in the scientific ...

The large, low and wide shape is distinct from the skulls of other known hominin species. - Courtesy Xiujie Wu The hard-to-classify Chinese remains include 21 fossils found in the 1970s at the ...