Paranthropus was an ape-like hominin that survived alongside early humans for more than a million years. A fossilised leg belonging to a strikingly small member of the group raises questions about how ...

D modeling reveals that as bird brains grew larger, it led to changes in jaw muscles and joint mechanics—enabling the ...

By comparing modern human, Neanderthal, and chimpanzee skulls, researchers have uncovered a unique trait having to do with ...

Oldest Ever Genetic Data of Ancient Human Relative Found in a 2-Million-Year-Old Teeth Excites Archaeologists Genetic ...

Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was also extremely small and ...

A new study by Dr. Margherita Mussi, published in Quaternary International, highlights how naturally occurring basalt spheres ...

The cave system itself is a 2km-long network of passageways, and it was here that the first Homo naledi fossils were uncovered. The skull, found in 2015, is believed to belong to a child aged ...

This skull, attributed to Homo habilis, is small, with a cranial capacity of just 510 cubic centimeters. Most Homo habilis skulls have a larger cranial capacity, around 600 cubic centimeters ...

The facial remains are not those of Homo antecessor, an archaic human species whose roughly 900,000-year-old remains were previously found at the same site, according to the research. Rather ...

This raises the possibility that Homo erectus was present in Western Europe at least 1.4 million years ago, making it the true pioneer of human expansion into the region. The fossil, consisting of ...

For many older South Koreans, the name "white skull squad" harks back to a dark time of violence and repression. It was first used in the 1950s, when the country's first president, Rhee Syngman ...