Scientists say they have recovered the oldest known Homo sapiens DNA from human remains found in Europe, and the information is helping to reveal our species’ shared history with Neanderthals.

scientists have found clue to the oldest known evidence of blue eyes in human history. The archaeologists were able to reconstruct the appearance, ancestry, and health from the remains of a 17,000 ...

The human remains, which may be around 8,000 years old, were found in China next to a pit containing numerous turtle shell rattles.

NAGOYA, JAPAN—The Mainichi reports that the Middle Pleistocene fossils known as “Ushikawa Man,” once suggested to be the oldest known human remains in Japan, are actually bear bones.

And it’s also home to the oldest known remains of a gorgonopsian, an important ancestor of modern mammals — a fact that could change our understanding of their migration and evolutionary history.

Roughly 7,000-year-old cords found in a stunning Spanish cave are Europe's oldest bowstrings made of ... miners in the cave discovered artifacts and human remains within the cave.

Scientists have discovered the oldest known animal with saber teeth: a predator that lived 270 million years ago. This animal, from before the age of the dinosaurs, was a dog-like creature that was ...

A life reconstruction of what may be the oldest known gorgonopsian ... Researchers found a surprisingly large number of bone remains of the gorgonopsian during their investigations in Mallorca.

The known remains of gorgonopsians prior to this discovery belonged to very high latitudes such as Russia or South Africa. Its age has also surprised the researchers who conducted the study.