New dates on Chinese fossils raise question of how many times we left Africa

Two skulls from Yunxian, in northern China, aren’t ancestors of Denisovans after all; they’re actually the oldest known Homo ...

Flickering glacial climate may have shaped early human evolution

Researchers have identified a "tipping point" about 2.7 million years ago when global climate conditions switched from being ...
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This Giant Carnivore Ran on Hooves. Scientists Are Investigating Its Massive Skull and Crushing Teeth to Decipher the Beast’s True Nature

For more than a century, paleontologists have been piecing together how the mysterious predator Andrewsarchus is related to ...

A key out-of-Africa site just got older: Dating methods push 'Ubeidiya site back at least 1.9 million years

A new study provides a clearer timeline for one of the most significant prehistoric sites worldwide for the study of human evolution. By integrating three advanced dating techniques, researchers have ...

Scientists Discovered the Oldest Tools in North America

The discovery could rewrite our understanding of North American human dispersion and and provide some insight into famed ...