After comparing shapes, depths, and pressure patterns, this study found that two different hominin species left footprints in ...

For more than half a century, scientists have debated whether Paranthropus boisei, an extinct human relative known for its ...

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The Nobel Prize winner in Medicine is investigating genetic changes that could have given our species a competitive advantage ...

A set of incomplete skeletal remains, including a human skull, was recovered near a busy Queens strip mall Monday afternoon, just a week after city sanitation workers found a woman’s torso in a trash ...

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HUBEI, China — A badly crushed cranium unearthed decades ago from a riverbank in central China that once defied classification is now shaking up the human family tree, according to a new analysis.

Mushrooms may not be the first food that comes to mind when we imagine the diets of wild primates—or our early human ancestors. We tend to think of fruits and green leaves as the preferred foods for ...

A badly crushed cranium unearthed decades ago from a riverbank in central China that once defied classification is now shaking up the human family tree, according to a new analysis.Related video above ...

Scientists digitally reconstructed the fossilized skull, which is between 940,000 and 1.1 million years old, to aid their research A human skull found in 1990 is now changing scientists' understanding ...

An ancient skull unearthed in China’s Hubei Province may push back the emergence of the human species by 400,000 years Peerapon Boonyakiat/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty A human skull found in 1990 ...

A digital reconstruction of a one-million-year old skull in China called Yunxian 2 suggested that our species started to emerge half a million years earlier than previously believed, according to a ...