The discovery of a human facial fragment aged over one million years represents the oldest known face in western Europe and confirms the region was inhabited by two species of human during the early ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that modern humans emerged from two long-separated ancestral groups, not just one. This ...

When Maria Branyas Morera died in August 2024 at the age of 117, she left behind more than just a legacy as the world’s ...

A study of a woman who died in 2024 as the oldest person on Earth attempts to untangle the factors that enable some people to ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest human face in Western Europe, potentially re-writing the story of human evolution.

Scientists report that a fossil of a partial face from a early human ancestor in Spain is between 1.1 and 1.4 million years ...

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Ancient human relatives crafted sharp-edged tools ... a famous East African fossil location, represent the oldest known evidence of systematic bone tool production by hominids, according to ...

The discovery joins other finds — such as a 1.4-million-year-old bone axe from Ethiopia — that suggest the human ancestor Homo erectus often used bones as tools. Tool use is a storied ...

(CNN) — Archaeologists have uncovered a collection of bone tools in northern Tanzania that were shaped by ancient human ancestors 1.5 million years ago, making them the oldest known bone tools ...

“How can we travel back in time? Is there a time machine? Yes. It’s DNA. It’s ancient DNA.” Hunt for the Oldest DNA tells the story of a maverick gene hunter, whose single-minded pursuit of an ...