Sep 2019
The fossilized hominid skull illuminates the earliest-known Australopithecus species
A 3.8 million-year-old skull reveals the face of Lucy’s possible ancestors
Aug 2022
Misconduct allegations over an earlier report on one of the bones hang over the findings.
7-million-year-old limb fossils may be from the earliest known hominid
Dec 2021
Fossils and DNA point to mixing and mingling among Homo groups across vast areas
2021 research reinforced that mating across groups drove human evolution
Mar 2021
A roughly 10,000-year-old bone found in southern Alaska is among the Americas’ oldest dog fossils
An ancient dog fossil helps trace humans’ path into the Americas
Dec 2021
The now-extinct animals were still considerably larger than their modern kin
Ancient giant orangutans evolved smaller bodies surprisingly slowly
Jul 2021
DNA analysis shows it emerged 7,100 years ago and was less virulent than the Black Death strain
Ancient human bones reveal the oldest known strain of the plague
Jan 2024
Just 21 of more than 400 teeth had fractures, suggesting early primates had soft-food diets
Ancient primates' unchipped teeth hint that they ate mostly fruit
Jul 2023
The proposed geologic epoch denotes when humans began profoundly changing the planet
Canada's Crawford Lake could mark the beginning of the Anthropocene
Nov 2019
The 1,300-year-old game piece resembles a rook, or castle
A carved rock found in Jordan may be the oldest known chess piece
Jun 2020
Possible arrowheads at a rainforest site in Sri Lanka date to 48,000 years ago
Clues to the earliest known bow-and-arrow hunting outside Africa have been found