In 1949, a fossil jaw was discovered in a cave and has now been identified as belonging to a previously unknown human ...

Researchers have extracted ancient proteins from australopithecine fossils and determined whether they were male or female — a first for human evolution studies.

Paranthropus capensis, a “gorilla-like” human relative that lived in southern Africa some 1.4 million years ago. A new study focuses on a hominin jawbone known as SK 15 that was unearthed in 1949 at ...

New findings suggest hominins entered Eurasia roughly 200,000 years earlier than previously thought, predating the Dmanisi site in Georgia.

New fossil evidence from Romania suggests hominins reached Eurasia 200,000 years earlier than thought, reshaping human ...

Researchers were able to recreate the running form of the famous hominin. Spoiler: she’s not winning any marathons.

The signs point to a hyperarid, relatively inhospitable spot that this ancient species of hominin not only lived in, but returned to several times. "The biogeochemical, palaeoenvironmental, and ...

He and his colleague Wu Xiujie, a senior professor from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing, now suggest it may be time to formally recognize a previously unknown ...

According to a study published in Nature Communications, faunal remains from Grăunceanu, part of the Tetoiu Formation, were analysed, showing cut marks consistent with hominin butchery techniques. The ...

The research puts humans in Europe earlier than previously believed. Multiple cut-marked bones offer a key clue into the ...

Research led by the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at Ohio University has found evidence of hominin activity at a Romanian fossil site dating to at least 1.95 million years ago.

An extremely large brain that’s bigger than that of our species, Homo sapiens, the only surviving hominin. The feature is reflected in the proposed name for the species, revealed by Bae and Wu ...