Newly discovered fossils in Ethiopia show that Homo coexisted with Australopithecus 2.6 million years ago, rewriting the ...

Recent discoveries of massive bones have prompted scientists to re-evaluate the established prehistoric timelines. These findings challenge previous assumptions about the existence and evolution of ...

How did humans become human? Understanding when, where and in what environmental conditions our early ancestors lived is ...

Evidence from Mandrin Cave in France reveals modern humans were present 54,000 years ago, 10,000 years earlier than once ...

Researchers from France, China, the UK, and Greece revealed that the Petralona cranium is at least 286,000 years old, placing it firmly in the Middle Pleistocene era. A new scientific study has shed ...

Scientists have uncovered the world s earliest fossil showing both Neanderthal and Homo sapiens features: a five-year-old child from Israel s Skhul Cave dating back 140,000 years. This discovery ...

Research led by Institut de Paléontologie Humaine is providing a finite minimum age for a nearly complete cranium from Petralona Cave in Greece that has perplexed researchers since its discovery in ...