8.7 million year-old fossil rewrites the story of human evolution New fossil and DNA evidence reveals significant Neanderthal diversity Mysterious fossil discovery represents a whole new form of life ...

Fossilized remains found in Morocco might belong to our 300,000-year-old ancestors. The skulls and bones could represent the earliest known fossils of Homo sapiens, the human species to which we ...

Understanding of human origins was still nascent in the 1970s. Fossils of hominins — the group that includes modern humans and our close ancestors — had been dated to 1.8 million years ago at ...

Iceman may have come to an unfortunate end while crossing the Alps more than 5,000 years ago, but thanks to his ...

Our human evolution workshops were conducted with well-resourced and historically disadvantaged schools attending. The grade 12 learners, aged 17 and 18 years, visited the fossil preparatory ...

In 2008, researchers discovered human remains dating back 1.2 million years, which were believed to be the oldest known fossils in Western Europe.

It could also help bridge a gap in evolutionary space between the oldest known human ancestor fossils found in Europe — which are roughly 1.8 million years old and were discovered at a site in ...

This image provided by the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution in March 2025, shows a fossil of the left midface of a hominin, right, between 1.1 million and 1.4 million ...

This image provided by the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution in March 2025, shows a fossil of the left midface of a hominin between 1.1 million and 1.4 million years old ...