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The oldest human fossils on Japan's mainland were found in a limestone quarry near Hamakita, 40 km east of Ushikawa.

The 20,000-year-old fossilized bones of "Ushikawa Man," thought to be some of Japan's most ancient human ... of fossilized skeletal remains over several decades, Suwa said. The fossils are named ...

A Calvert County fossil hunter found a coffin and human skeleton in the Chesapeake Bay, prompting questions about how old the body is and where it could have originated. NBC reported Friday that ...

The discovery of Lucy, or “Dinknesh” as the remains are locally known, changed not just Johanson’s career but it also shed new light on how humans evolved and changed over time, according to Johanson, ...

The burial of Shanidar 4, a male skeleton found surrounded by wildflower pollen ... are known from only a few fossil remains, primarily from this cave. This hybrid discovery underscores the complex ...

The University of Liverpool has led an international team of scientists to take a fresh look at the running capabilities of ...

Typically, skeletal fossils offer primary evidence of human evolution, but fossil footprints help fill in gaps about the evolution of human anatomy and movement. “With these kinds of data, we can see ...

The skeleton of Ardipithecus ramidus, an ancient fossil dubbed "Ardi," is radically changing our ideas about mankind's origins. Kent State University's C. Owen Lovejoy says Ardi shows our ...

Lucy, an early human ancestor, could run upright but much slower than modern humans. New simulations show that muscle and ...

HEFEI -- Chinese scientists have discovered dozens of human fossils dating back 300,000 years, which are the earliest ones found in East Asia in terms of the evolution process towards Homo sapiens ...