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

After sequencing the DNA from a 30,000-year-old pinkie finger discovered in a Siberian cave, researchers have confirmed that it belonged to a previously unknown hominid species that probably ...

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

LUCY’S RELATIVE Fossils discovered in Ethiopia, including this partial upper jaw with teeth, come from a hominid species that lived alongside Lucy’s species between 3.5 million and 3.3 million ...

The history of anthropology is littered with many now-defunct hominid species that no longer have a place on the human family tree. Erin Wayman. December 10, 2012. Get our newsletter!

Scientists say they have found the bones of a new hominid species that lived in Africa almost 2 million years ago during the period spanning the emergence of the human family.

A team led by Professor Lee Berger, a renowned palaeoanthropologist from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (aka Wits University) have described and named a new species of hominid ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 Erin Wayman March 21, 2012 ...