Since its discovery in 1988, Hualongdong has produced significant finds during excavations ongoing since 2013. These include nearly 20 ancient human fossils, a well-preserved skull, over 400 stone ...

Discovered in late 1988, the Hualongdong site has yielded remarkable finds during continuous excavations since 2013. Approximately 20 individual ancient human fossils, including a relatively ...

A million years ago, a species known as Homo erectus most likely survived in an arid desert with no trees. By Carl Zimmer ...

5, 2024 — A new study suggests that the fundamental abilities underlying human language and technological culture may have evolved before humans and apes ... A Fossil First: Scientists Find 1.5 ...

The 20,000-year-old fossilized bones of "Ushikawa Man," thought to be some of Japan's most ancient human fossils, are not what scientists believed they were, new research finds. Instead ...

The discovery will provide more insight into human evolution and ... They noticed fossils on the surface and were excavating to try and find the source. While cleaning the top layer of a bed ...

The oldest human fossils found outside of Africa ... A few 20th century fossil and artifact finds in Israel showed that anatomically modern humans were in the region up to 115,000 years ago.

In 1974, Lucy showed that human ancestors were up and walking around long before the earliest stone tools were made or brains got bigger, and subsequent fossil finds of much earlier bipedal ...

According to a study, what scientists thought were the oldest human fossils found in Japan are actually the bones of a brown bear.

But Lucy and other fossil finds reveal that more than 3 million years ago, a relatively small-brained, ape-faced human ancestor walked steadily on two feet. To get a picture of how Lucy's species ...