Homo floresiensis in the context of the evolution and dispersal of the genus Homo. Could LB1 be a pygmy H. sapiens? Again, no. Compared with a human skull scaled to less than a third of full size ...

Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

New Israeli research suggests large game was smoked as early as 1.8 million years ago, a survival strategy that may have ...

Thanks to a study that analyzed fossilized fragments of baby jaws dating back two million years, scientists are rewriting the ...

The internal structures of Maba 1 show a combination of morphological features found in various species,” scientists stated ...

Newly found fossils show that those rivers were home to fish, turtles, river sharks, and even hippos. On land, elephants, ...

A 300,000-year-old skull found in China may belong to a completely unknown human species—rewriting everything we thought we ...

Fragments of a Homo erectus skull were among deposits of vertebrate fossils found when the Indonesian seafloor was being ...

New Homo erectus skull fossils found undersea reveal migration across ancient Sundaland, suggesting cultural exchange and advanced hunting in prehistoric Southeast Asia ...

Buried beneath the sea off the coast of Indonesia, scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery that could rewrite the ...

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