Researchers in Australia recently discovered a 2 million year old skull that gives us more clues about our evolution as a ...

Researchers have found the earliest example of our species (modern humans) outside Africa. A skull unearthed in Greece has been dated to 210,000 years ago, at a time when Europe was occupied by ...

Pressure is growing on Germany and the UK to return to Africa skulls taken as trophies and for discredited racial research more than a century ago, writes the BBC's Damian Zane. A Tanzanian based ...

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They were searching for ancient human remains in a network of caves near Johannesburg, South Africa. With only headlamps ... teeth and fragments of skull belonging to a Homo naledi child.

Ancient skulls pillaged by German invaders from East Africa have been traced to living relatives, thanks to DNA analysis, Berlin's Museums authority (SPK) said Tuesday. The discovery of ...

One of the 20th-century's biggest quests was to find the “missing link,” a being who connected humans to their pre-historic ancestors. It was also the height of scientific racism.

A unique fossil discovery in Brazil provides new insights into bird brain evolution, while a study highlights drastic ...