Researchers say a fossil jawbone discovered in Taiwan belonged to an enigmatic group of early human ancestors.

A fossilized jawbone dredged up by a fishing net from the seafloor 15 ½ miles (25 kilometers) off the coast of Taiwan in 2010 looked human, but for ...

Hamdan Ballal, who won an Oscar for No Other Land about Palestinians under Israeli occupation, was attacked by Israeli settlers and later detained by Israeli security forces, his lawyer tells NPR.

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Uncover the history of life on Earth, from the smallest insects to the largest mammals. The ancient human species Homo luzonensis is one of the most recent branches to be added to the human ...

"It's interesting but also a little frightening to see that in a genus like Piloderma, where we previously thought all species were common, there are such hidden old-growth forest species.

a term which recognized its belonging to the genus Homo, but also accepted our inability to refine it further with the evidence available at the time. In 2022, against all odds, the excavation ...

This skull, attributed to Homo habilis, is small, with a cranial capacity of just 510 cubic centimeters. Most Homo habilis skulls have a larger cranial capacity, around 600 cubic centimeters ...

The research team at the Atapuerca archaeological sites in Burgos, Spain, has just broken its own record by discovering, for the third time, the oldest human in Western Europe.

The discovery is particularly important as it places the arrival of the first populations in Europe before the 'Homo antecessors', whose remains date back approximately 860,000 years. It is a key ...

However, the features of ATE7-1 are more archaic and bring us closer to more primitive forms of the Homo genus. Since the evidence does not yet allow for a definitive taxonomic classification, experts ...