New imaging has upended a decades-old assumption about Japan’s earliest “humans.” The finding doesn’t erase the past—it ...
In this 4.4-million-year-old skeleton, scientists may have found the missing step between climbing and walking.
Fossil teeth unearthed in Ethiopia suggest two distinct human ancestor species lived alongside each other between 2.6 and 2.8 million years ago, reshaping what is known about our evolution. The 13 ...
Archaeologists uncovered teeth from an ancient human ancestor in Ethiopia's Afar Region. - Amy Rector/Virginia Commonwealth University Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long ...
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Million-year-old sea crossing near ‘Hobbit’s’ island rewrites early human history
More than a million years ago, early human relatives crossed an enormous sea to reach the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The ...
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New study of fossilized bones rewrites history of early human ancestors
Almost 2 million years ago, a young ancient human died beside a spring near a lake in what is now Tanzania, in eastern Africa ...
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Discovery of First Fossil Hand Linked to P. Boisei Suggests the Bygone Human Relative Could Have Used Tools
The fossils indicate that P. boisei ’s human-like hand proportions would have allowed it to handle stone tools with dexterity ...
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Early humans in Australia were fossil hunters
A groundbreaking study published in October 2025 has proposed a new perspective on the early inhabitants of Australia, ...
The extinct animal's face structure could help explain how vertebrates, including ourselves, evolved our distinctive look.
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