A new digital reconstruction of Ötzi the Iceman’s ribcage shows a number of “ambiguous” features that might have assisted him ...

"Humans picked up some Neanderthal DNA through interbreeding, while the Neanderthal population, always fairly small, was ...

Fossils discovered in China may belong to a new species of hominid or they may be evidence that modern humans were more diverse thousands of years ago ...

But a lively debate surrounds the fossils, concerning whether they actually belong to the hominid species, known as Sahelanthropus tchadensis, or to an ancient ape, and to what extent either ...

New species Casts of fossil jaws and teeth from a newly proposed hominid species, A. deyiremeda, show key differences from corresponding finds assigned to Lucy’s species, scientists assert.

Nord, Germany, systematically transported and processed the bones of at least 172 large mammals to extract nutrient-rich ...

At the annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics in October 2016, Ryan Bohlender reported that people from Melanesia may carry evidence of a previously unknown extinct hominid species.

New hominid shares traits with Homo species: Fossil find sheds light on the transition to Homo genus from earlier hominids Date: April 8, 2010 Source: American Association for the Advancement of ...

In 2003, when fossil remains were uncovered in Liang Bua Cave on the Indonesian island of Flores, the discoverers dubbed the remains Homo floresiensis, a new hominid species. But a new study ...

Berger discovered the existence of this hominid species Homo naledi only eight years prior, inside the Rising Star cave system northwest of Johannesburg in South Africa.