But it’s never been clear what species the bones belonged to or where they should sit in an increasingly complex human family tree. Christopher Bae, a professor in the department of anthropology at ...

This week, meet a big-brained ancient human relative, hear a meteorite as it lands on Earth, spot a tiny kangaroo-like marsupial, and more.

In other words, he believed it to be a so-called “missing link” in the family tree between living apes and Homo sapiens. Dart ...

Old Fossilized Finger Bone, Evidence of Early Human Migration and Colonization across the world Scientists discovered a fossil finger bone that was dated back 90,000 years in Saudi Arabia's Nefud ...

A cache of human-like fossils from China has perplexed scientists for decades, defying explanation or categorization. The skull fragments, teeth, jaws and other remains unearthed at different ...

Researchers have found evidence that early humans arrived in Europe half a million years earlier than previously thought at a ...

The research puts humans in Europe earlier than previously believed. Multiple cut-marked bones offer a key clue into the ...

A cache of human-like fossils from China has perplexed scientists for decades, defying explanation or categorization. The skull fragments, teeth, jaws and other remains unearthed at different sites ...

Discoveries in the past two decades have added new branches to the human family tree ... the puzzle presented by a collection of humanlike fossils that have defied explanation for decades.

A paleontologist hailed the discovery as "truly an unusual find," adding it helped explain the relationships in the prehistoric food chain.