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 ...

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

THE face of humans’ most mysterious ancestor has finally been uncovered after 217,000 years. The discovery proves that the ‘Dragon Man’ of China is indeed a Denisovan, a long ...

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

DNA and protein analysis of a 146,000-year-old skull shows for the first time what the face of this species, which occupied much of Asia and left its genes in modern humans, was like ...