A partial skull found in South Africa suggests Homo erectus—an ancestral human species—appeared 100,000 years earlier than previously thought. The new ...

This skull provides critical corroboration of genetic evidence indicating that modern humans originated in sub-Saharan Africa and migrated about this time to colonize the Old World.

Researchers uncovered the nearly complete skull of an ancient apex predator that prowled North Africa roughly 30 million years ago.

Hershkovitz and his colleagues said the skull fragment may well be the missing piece of a larger puzzle that shows how Neanderthals and modern humans may have mixed their genes.

A human ancestor called Homo naledi lived in southern Africa between about 241,000 and 335,000 years ago. Anthropologists found the first skull belonging to a Homo naledi child deep in a cave. The ...

A newly discovered 1.8 million-year-old skull offers evidence that humanity's early ancestors emerged from Africa as a single adventurous species, not several, as believed.