Here, we take a closer look at five of the oldest fossils that ... of the different human species that coexisted during the same time period. Twiggy (OH 24) Found in 1968 at Tanzania's Olduvai ...

The upper jawbone and partial cheek bone represent a mysterious unknown species that lived in present-day Spain between 1.1 million and 1.4 million years ago, according to a new study ...

The lower jawbone, from an individual named Penghu 1, is the first piece of fossil evidence that Denisovans were as ...

Researchers reexamining fossils identified telltale marks made by human ancestors cutting meat from bones. The discovery ...

These fossils, dated to around 900,000 years ... a site no more than 300 meters from the Gran Dolina, the oldest human in Europe was found once again. This time it was a human jawbone, found ...

Archaeologists have discovered the world’s oldest known bone tools—dated to 1.5 million years ago—at Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge ...

At the Atapuerca archaeological site in Burgos, Spain, the oldest human in Western Europe was discovered for the third time, […] ...

A bone discovered in Taiwan turns out to have belonged to a Denisovan, a lineage previously identified only thousands of ...

Archaeologists have discovered fossilized facial bones of an ancient human race which lived ... was a part of a group represented by fossils previously found in the region, but after analyzing ...

Looking again through the magnifying lens at the fossil’s surface ... Dmanisi were the oldest well-dated evidence in Eurasia of the presence of hominins − our direct human ancestors.