New fossil discoveries are reshaping scientists’ understanding of a pivotal chapter in human evolution, revealing that several human ancestor lineages lived side by side nearly 3 million years ago.

What you'll discover in this article ・A new 2 million-year-old adult Homo erectus fossil confirms that our ancestors were in South Africa 200,000 years before anywhere elsewhere. ・H. erectus and ...

Composite skull and CT-based soft-tissue mapping reveal a familiar face while underscoring what fossils can’t show.

A 2-million-year-old skull fragment from Drimolen adds an adult to the earliest Homo erectus record, when another hominin outnumbered it 10 to 1.

Scientists in South Africa have discovered a key missing link in human evolution - a hominid 1.8 million-years-old that may be the oldest direct human ancestor ever found. The fossils of the species, ...

Washington, Mar 14 (PTI) Scientists have discovered a part of a skull dating back to 400,000 years – the oldest human cranium ever found in Portugal – marking an important contribution to the ...

In the 1960s, a miner working at a mineral extraction site in Jebel Irhoud, Morocco, struck something far more valuable than any mineral in the area: a skull with distinctly humanlike features. After ...

Fossilized human footprints embedded in the gypsum sediment at White Sands National Park.