Fossils were first unearthed at Jebel Irhoud in the 1960s but were initially estimated to be around 40,000 years old. Their anatomical features did not align with prevailing models of human ...

According to the authors, the huge cache of bones may have been collected over a period of time before being imported to Neumark-Nord in one massive load, where they were intensively processed into ...

Homo sapiens — mingled and interbred with other prehistoric humans: our distant cousins, the Neanderthals and Denisovans.

For instance, John Hawks, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is concerned about the study authors' claims that the Moroccan fossils belong to the Homo sapiens clade.

A fossil of a human finger bone found in Saudi Arabia, was recently dated to 88,000 years ago. If confirmed, the finding would be the first and earliest Homo sapiens fossil found on the Arabian ...

Scientists have recovered genetic material from a skull found in northeastern China, which they say reveals the most complete ...

A new study reveals that ancient Homo sapiens possessed a unique adaptability, thriving in diverse and challenging environments across Africa before their major dispersal around 50,000 years ago ...

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

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

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

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

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