Fragments of a partial skull unearthed in a cave in northern Spain have revealed a previously unknown population of ancient ...

Scientists have unearthed in Spain fossilized facial bones roughly 1.1 million to 1.4 million years old that may represent a ...

That’s why the hip, thigh, and shinbone found at Swartkrans Cave – the first place P. robustus and Homo fossils were found ...

If Mars ever hosted microorganisms in its bygone oceans, their fossils might still be preserved in minerals—and now, we have a new potential way to find them Margherita Bassi Daily Correspondent ...

Paranthropus robustus was a species of prehistoric human that lived in South Africa about 2 million years ago, alongside Homo ...

The pliosaur was a carnivorous reptilian apex predator that roamed and ruled the seas for millions of years during the ...

A cache of 1.5 million-year-old bone tools uncovered in Tanzania suggest ancient human ancestors were capable of critical ...

Wang: A fossil’s age is always later than the species’ actual origin. To estimate evolutionary timelines, scientists ...

The oldest collection of mass-produced prehistoric bone tools reveal that human ancestors were likely capable of more advanced abstract reasoning one million years earlier than thought, finds a new ...

Deep in a trench in Tanzania, researchers found dozens of tools crafted from animal bones some 1.5 million years old.