Neanderthal Gene Still Shapes Muscle and Jaws in Some Living Humans
Neanderthals vanished roughly 42,000 years ago, but a piece of their biology appears to be quietly at work…
1.4-Million-Year-Old Footprints Reveal a Giant Human Relative
One of the large, 1.4-million-year-old footprints that the team excavated. A 6-inch (~15 cm) ruler is shown for…
Scientists Find Traces of Two Unknown Archaic Hominins in Human DNA
New research led by the University of California, Berkeley reveals that beyond Neanderthals and Denisovans, humans interbred with…
224,000-Year-Old Homo Skull Fragment Adds New Mystery to Human Origins
A fossilized skull fragment of Homo sp. unearthed in central Spain offers paleoanthropologists a fresh window into the…
New Fossil Study Challenges the Classic Story of Human Evolution
Replicas of a Homo habilis skull (right) and an early Homo sapiens skull (left), illustrating two key evolutionary…
New Study Challenges Long-Held Idea that Our Ancestors Simply Got Bigger Over Time
For decades, paleoanthropologists assumed that hominins — the lineage leading to modern humans — gradually grew larger over…
146,000-Year-Old Discovery Rewrites the Story of Human Creativity
Crystals growing inside a bone found at the Lingjing archaeological site; these crystals were used to date the…
Scientists Reconstruct One of Oldest Known Neanderthal Communities
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from eight fossils found in Stajnia Cave in Poland reveals a tight-knit group of Neanderthals…
New Fossil Crocodile from Ethiopia Lived alongside Australopithecus afarensis
Paleontologists analyzing fossils from Ethiopia have described a previously unknown crocodile species that shared the landscape with a…
One of the Most Complete Human Ancestor Fossils Called Little Foot May Be New Species
An international study led by researchers from Australia’s La Trobe University and the University of Cambridge has challenged…
Million-year-old fossil changes what we know about human hands and feet
Newly discovered fossils in Kenya reveal that Paranthropus boisei, once seen as a simple plant-eater, had surprisingly human-like…
80,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Footprints Found in Portugal
Archaeologists have discovered two Neanderthals tracksites in the southwestern most region of Europe: at Monte Clérigo, dated to…