A new study dates Greece’s Petralona Cave skull to as much as 500,000 years, offering fresh insight into early human evolution in Europe.

Human delivers an unusually clear picture of Homo sapiens as a species shaped by climate, animals, plants, other hominins and ...

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 ...

The fossilized chompers are evidence of a previously unknown hominin that coexisted with the earliest humans 2.8 million ...

For decades, we were taught a tidy version of human evolution: one species handing the baton to the next, in a neat ...

A child's skull from 140,000 years ago has unlocked a surprising connection between Neanderthals and homo-sapiens.

Scientists discovered signs of interbreeding between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens on a 140,000-year-old skull; 'This is the ...

Countless species lived and vanished before Homo sapiens appeared. From colossal predators to strange giants, these are the ...

Neanderthals bred with our human ancestors 100,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to a new study. Experts ...

August 9 has been declared the ‘World Indigenous People’s Day’ and Sri Lanka has been celebrating this day in a grand manner ...

Experts believe that the landmark find is poised to significantly reshape the world’s understanding of the complex tapestry ...

Discovered approximately 90 years ago, the fossil was reanalyzed using advanced micro-CT scanning and 3D modeling. A ...