It all started with the serendipitous discovery by a local farmer in Queensland in the 1960s. The remains, now attributed to the famous Kow Swamp fossil collection, differed dramatically from what ...

Two fossil skulls discovered in Yunxian, northern China, are now dated to approximately 1.77 million years ago, making them the oldest known hominin remains in eastern Asia. The new findings overturn ...

When the remains of Ardi, a 4.4 million-year-old female member of Ardipithecus ramidus, were revealed in 2009, the scientific community was buzzing in hopes of trying to understand how or if she fit ...

The generally accepted theory of the spread of ancient humans from Africa, where they first evolved, known as “Out of Africa,” holds that a single species, Homo erectus, subsequently migrated to ...

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