For decades, the story of human origins has been pieced together from fossil evidence scattered across Africa, Europe, and ...

This week, meet a big-brained ancient human relative, hear a meteorite as it lands on Earth, spot a tiny kangaroo-like marsupial, and more.

Researchers Stunned After Discovering 20,000-Year-Old Fossil Belonged to a Bear, Mistook It to Be of a Human Initially The 20 ...

Researchers have found evidence that early humans arrived in Europe half a million years earlier than previously thought at a ...

The 20,000-year-old fossilized bones of "Ushikawa Man," thought to be some of Japan's most ancient human fossils, are not ...

But if Bae and Wu’s analysis is correct, these fossils could hold the key to solving one of human evolution’s biggest mysteries: a puzzle that started with the discovery of a pinkie bone in ...

A million years ago, a species known as Homo erectus most likely survived in an arid desert with no trees. By Carl Zimmer ...

A cache of human-like fossils from China has perplexed scientists for decades, defying explanation or categorization. The skull fragments, teeth, jaws and other remains unearthed at different ...

The 20,000-year-old fossilized bones of "Ushikawa Man," thought to be some of Japan's most ancient human fossils, are not what scientists believed they were, new research finds. Instead ...