In China, researchers studying the burial site of one of the world's most well-preserved mummies also unearthed what's ...

"Whatever the chain of events, only those remains here mentioned have been found up to this day," Daniel Torres Navarro ...

This latest find, a 29,000-year-old human skeleton, is perhaps the most significant yet. The young child, who lived during the last Ice Age, offers a unique glimpse into life in a long-vanished era.

Fossilized bones discovered decades ago and hailed at the time as the oldest human remains found in Japan turn out to be from a prehistoric bear, a new analysis shows.

Scientists have discovered the oldest human face in Western Europe, potentially rewriting the story of human evolution. The ancient human nicknamed 'Pink' lived in Spain's Iberian Peninsula ...

Human DNA recovered from remains found in Europe is revealing our species’ shared history with Neanderthals. The trove is the oldest Homo sapiens DNA ever documented, scientists say.

Radiocarbon dating of the remains yielded ages as old as 1800 BC and as young as 800 BC, thus including the oldest directly dated human remains from Puerto Rico and representing as much as 1,000 ...

It could also help bridge a gap in evolutionary space between the oldest known human ancestor fossils found in Europe — which are roughly 1.8 million years old and were discovered at a site in ...

Human DNA recovered from remains found in Europe is revealing our species’ shared history with Neanderthals. The trove is the oldest Homo sapiens DNA ever documented, scientists say.