Archaeology and paleontology are filled with discoveries that solve one mystery while creating several more. One of the most puzzling finds involved ancient human remains discovered inside a cave ...

When a villager in northern Greece broke into a limestone wall and exposed a human skull, he did not just find a fossil, he ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human relative could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Evidence from Sulawesi shows early human relatives crossed deep ocean waters more than a million years ago—centuries before modern ...

Early humans in England used elephant bone to sharpen stone tools, revealing advanced planning, material knowledge, and ...

We are getting a clearer sense of where and how often Homo sapiens and Neanderthals interbred, and it turns out the behaviour ...

One spring, after a long winter, an aged elephant lay dying at the bank of a small stream near the coast of what is now northern Italy. Soon after, some scavengers arrived to dine on this huge ...

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human relative could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, researchers said. A cranium dubbed Yunxian 2 was found in the Yunxian region of ...