When a villager in northern Greece broke into a limestone wall and exposed a human skull, he did not just find a fossil, he ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human relative could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, ...

Before life as we know it began, early humans walked the Earth at the same time as woolly mammoths and sabre-toothed tigers. Through several prehistoric eras they lived, hunted and evolved, leaving ...

An ancient skull unearthed in China’s Hubei Province may push back the emergence of the human species by 400,000 years Peerapon Boonyakiat/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty A human skull found in 1990 ...

Long before humans built cities or wrote words, our ancestors may have faced a hidden threat that shaped who we became. Scientists studying ancient teeth found that early humans, great apes, and even ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Fossilized bones and teeth dating to 773,000 years ago unearthed in a Moroccan cave are providing a deeper understanding of the emergence of Homo sapiens in Africa, ...

Scientists have discovered that a gene called MUC19, inherited from Denisovans through ancient interbreeding, may have played a vital role in helping Indigenous ancestors adapt as they migrated into ...

BALLARI: Researchers have found two prehistoric human skeletons during an ongoing excavation at Gaudra Moole Hill in ...