Called Homo juluensis, or “big head,” this species could help piece together missing info about humanity around the late Middle Pleistocene.

Scientists have identified evidence of a new ancient human species, Homo juluensis, from fossils in East Asia.

A new study determined that these footprints actually contain evidence of two distinct human species: Homo erectus and ...

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In 2018, paleoanthropologists were given a fossil from northeastern China that turned out to be an extinct species of archaic ...

Fish stocks along the West African coast have significantly declined in the past fifty years, threatening food security and ...

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Recent research challenges the theory that long childhood in humans is due to large brain sizes. Instead, analysis of early ...

One of the most fascinating periods in the evolution of the human lineage is the appearance of the first ancestors capable of ...

A study by an international team reveals 1.5-million-year-old footprints from Koobi Fora, Kenya, showing two distinct ...

Lucy has and continues to play a fundamental role in our understanding of our ancient ancestors and how we evolved.

Researchers discovered 1.5-million-year-old footprints in Kenya's Turkana Basin, revealing coexistence of Paranthropus boisei ...