When researchers in China announced a possible new human species from a cave in Hebei province, they did more than add ...

Ancient stone tools found on Sulawesi, an island in Indonesia, raises huge questions about early hominins ability to sail ...

Indonesia’s remarkable cultural diversity, spanning thousands of islands, hundreds of ethnic groups and countless living traditions, has long made the archipelago one of the world’s great meeting ...

The island of Flores has guarded one of science’s greatest mysteries: could it be that the Flores man did not actually die out completely?

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

Fact of the Day is a simple yet fascinating way to learn something new daily. In this world, there is an endless amount of ...

One possible member of the new species H. juluensis isn’t a newcomer to science by any stretch. Denisovans—first identified ...

Now, in a study published Tuesday called "Mystery owner of African hominin foot identified," the scientists announced that ...

Newly discovered fossils prove that a mysterious foot found in Ethiopia belongs to a little-known, recently named ancient ...

Scientists have solved the mystery of 3.4 million-year-old fossils called the "Burtele Foot" discovered in Ethiopia in 2009, finding they belonged to an enigmatic human ancestor that lived alongside ...