For nearly seven decades, textbook timelines pointed to a handful of bones as Japan’s earliest humans. New analyses now show ...

On an expedition in the Awash Valley in Ethiopia, two anthropologists uncovered the bones of a 3.2 million-year-old human ...

Scientists from Arizona State University and other institutions finally assigned a species name to a fossil known as the ...

Ethiopian researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery that fundamentally challenges our understanding of human evolution by uncovering fossil evidence of a previously unknown species that ...

New analyses have overturned a long-taught chapter of Japanese prehistory: fossils from a Toyohashi quarry once hailed as the ...