The debate around the evolution of modern humans has intensified with new findings about Homo sapiens fossils from East Africa. The oldest remains currently known were discovered at Djebel Irhoud ...

Researchers have reexaminated a mammoth ivory boomerang that was discovered in Obłazowa cave in Poland in 1985.

The species may have lived alongside Homo sapiens for more than 100,000 years, and they’re believed to be the precursor to the Neanderthal, the skull of which is seen above.

A mammoth tusk artefact discovered in a Polish cave could be Europe’s earliest example of a boomerang and even the oldest ...

In 2010, scientists found the first evidence of another hominin subspecies, known as the Danisovans. Now, they’ve identified ...

The Sunda Shelf is home to a rich Pleistocene hominin fossil record, including specimens of Homo floresiensis, Homo ...

The ancient boomerang wasn't found alone; it lay alongside a human phalanx—a small bone from either a finger or a toe.

Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra.

DNA and protein analysis of a 146,000-year-old skull shows for the first time what the face of this species, which occupied ...

Hidden for 80+ years, the Harbin skull has finally been identified as Denisovan using DNA and protein analysis.

(CN) — A boomerang made from a mammoth’s tusk pulled from a Polish cave could be one of the oldest known examples of a ...