Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Humanity's closest relatives, both extinct, are the Neanderthals and the Denisovans. The second group, who lived alongside both ...

An ancient skull, warped and damaged by the ravages of time and degradation, may have just altered our understanding of the history of modern humans. Using careful 3D scanning and digital ...

Scientists suggest it may be the remains of a prehistoric hominin that walked alongside Neanderthals hundreds of thousands of years ago. Reading time 3 minutes In 1960, a villager found something ...

Far below the waves, where sunlight never reaches, a fragment of bone has forced scientists to redraw parts of the human family tree. An ancient jaw dredged from the seafloor between China and Taiwan, ...

There’s fresh drama in the field of human origins! A new analysis of an ancient hominid skull from China challenges what we thought we knew about our ancestral family tree, and its timeline—at least ...

A "remarkably complete" 3.8-million-year-old skull of an early human has been unearthed in Ethiopia, scientists announced Wednesday, a discovery that has the potential to alter our understanding of ...

Scientists who three years ago discovered a nearly complete 7 million-year-old skull in central Africa have dug up additional evidence supporting the conclusion that the skull belonged to the earliest ...

In what may be the most startling fossil find in decades, scientists in central Africa say they have unearthed the oldest trace of a pre-human ancestor - a remarkably intact skull of an apelike ...