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

Seven remarkably preserved footprints in an ancient lakebed represent the oldest evidence of human presence in the Middle ...

Fossil teeth unearthed in Ethiopia suggest two distinct human ancestor species lived alongside each other between 2.6 and 2.8 million years ago, reshaping what is known about our evolution. The 13 ...

The oldest distinguishing feature between humans and our ape cousins is our ability to walk on two legs—a trait known as bipedalism. Among mammals, only humans and our ancestors perform this atypical ...

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