In 1958, in a narrow trench of an eroded limestone cave near Maba Village in Shaoguan City, China, local farmers were digging ...

The oldest known Homo sapiens fossil is about 36,000 years older than previously thought, according to a recent study. Volcanologists matched a layer of ash above the fossil skull to an eruption ...

An international team of scientists led by French anthropologists has unearthed the oldest skull ever found in the human family, a seven-million-year-old fossil in the central African nation of Chad.

"It is the oldest skull by far of a human ancestor. This will have the ... The team of 40 scientists, led by the French paleontologist Michel Brunet and Harvard University's David Pilbeam, has ...

Two skulls unearthed in Ethiopia may be the oldest known human fossils, dating from the dawn of modern humanity 195,000 years ago, a new analysis shows. In research made public Wednesday ...

Moreover, the study authors found that the assemblage at Dmanisi is probably made up of two different human ... skulls ...

The researchers believe the skull, found in the Republic of Georgia, is 1.8 million years old. “The most important thing about the skull is actually that it bridges one of the gaps in the fossil ...

One skull fragment may have belonged to an early modern human that lived at least 210,000 years ago, making it the oldest human fossil yet found outside of Africa. “It is very exciting!” ...

In the early 1950s, a very old human skull was discovered in Czechia; the sample was called Zlatý Kůň (golden horse in Czech). This skull yielded DNA that has now been analyzed. The effort revealed ...

Three fossilised skulls unearthed in Ethiopia are said by scientists to be among the most important discoveries ever made in the search for the origin of humans. Herto skull: Dated at between 160,000 ...