Over 100,000 years ago, a mysterious group of ancient humans walked the lands of eastern Asia. Known as the Juluren—meaning ...

An expanding geographic range for these close Neandertal relatives leaves Denisovans' evolutionary status uncertain.

Scientists say a fossil of a partial face from a early human ancestor in Spain is between 1.1 and 1.4 million years old ...

Piecing together the story of Europe’s earliest settlers is a challenge, largely because relevant human fossils are scarce. On March 12, researchers announced the discovery of a new fossil from the ...

The team suspects the specimens belonged to Homo erectus, a species well-known from fossils found in Africa and Asia but whose remains have never been conclusively found in Europe. The mountainous ...

These skulls belong to Homo erectus, but they are much smaller than typical Homo erectus fossils, leading scientists to classify them as a subspecies known as Homo erectus georgicus. The Dmanisi ...

In a groundbreaking discovery that may rewrite the map of human prehistory, fossilised genetic evidence has revealed that ...

The fossil remains, which were from a specimen ... the family tree — Homo — stretches back about 2 million years. Homo erectus, which lived up until at least 250,000 years ago, was the first ...

The remains have helped to fill in gaps in the fossil record and move science closer to understanding human evolution in Africa.

Hominins evolved in Africa. The first species to occupy multiple continents was Homo erectus, and the first fossil evidence we have of them beyond Africa comes from Dmanisi in Georgia. These ...