There was a moment in human history when our entire existence may have desperately clung to a thousand or more people.

New 3D analysis of a German skull clears up decades of confusion, placing this human firmly in the modern family tree.

A badly crushed cranium unearthed decades ago from a riverbank in central China that once defied classification is now shaking up the human family tree, according to a new analysis.Related video above ...

Fresh fossil evidence from Ethiopia shows early Homo lived alongside a newly identified Australopithecus species nearly 2.8 million years ago. This finding challenges the traditional idea of a single, ...

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A skull fragment discovered over fifty years ago on the banks of the Elbe River in Germany has finally yielded its secrets. Long considered by some researchers to be a rare Neanderthal-modern human ...

New fossil discoveries in China are rewriting the human story, revealing that Homo longi and early Homo sapiens may have diverged far earlier than believed. High-resolution scans of million-year-old ...

On Valentine’s Day in 2018, a team of scientists walked across a flat expanse in the badlands of northeastern Ethiopia, scanning the ground for fossils. An eagle-eyed field assistant, Omar Abdulla, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new reconstruction (center) of the crushed Yunxian 2 skull (right) found in China is seen with another squashed skull (left) ...