For decades, Paranthropus boisei, an early hominin that roamed eastern Africa a million years ago, was known for its gigantic ...

About 700,000 years ago, the skeletal remains of one of our most diminutive and mysterious ancient relatives were encased in sand and mud in a riverbed on an Indonesian island. Now, scientists have ...

Researchers in Spain have unearthed a fossil from a potential new prehistoric member of the human family tree, and they say it's the earliest known remnants of a face discovered in Western Europe. The ...

Some 1.5 million years ago, two ancient species crossed paths on a lake shore in Kenya. Their footprints in the mud were frozen in time and lay undiscovered until 2021. Biggest Denisovan fossil yet ...