Smithsonian paleoanthropologists explore how the year brought us closer to understanding ancient human relatives and origins ...

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Footprints from Kenya's Turkana Basin show that Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei lived simultaneously 1.5 million years ...

The 35,000-year-old rock was found in Manot Cave, which was inhabited by both prehistoric humans and Neanderthals Sonja Anderson New research examines chemical signatures to determine the diet of ...

An international team of researchers has uncovered evidence that ancient Egyptians were engaged in experimental treatments or ...

A uniquely preserved prehistoric mudhole could hold the oldest-ever human footprints on the Arabian Peninsula, scientists say ...

NAGOYA -- What were until now thought to be the oldest human fossils found in Japan, known as the "Ushikawa man," are ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Scientists have introduced what they believe may be a new ancient human species. The Juluren, or "large ...

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