If you have spent time with an infant, you might recognize the scene: A child is wailing, inconsolable, and you, the parent, have to go to the bathroom. Or eat. Or attend to a pot that’s boiling over.

Researchers from France, China, the UK, and Greece revealed that the Petralona cranium is at least 286,000 years old, placing it firmly in the Middle Pleistocene era. A new scientific study has shed ...

Scientists believe they're close to solving an ancient mystery involving a strange hominin skull that was neither Neanderthal ...

Archeologists also uncovered fossils from saber-toothed tigers, elephants, wolves, deer, and even giraffes, alongside a trove ...

Scientists suggest it may be the remains of a prehistoric hominin that walked alongside Neanderthals hundreds of thousands of ...

Recent discoveries of massive bones have prompted scientists to re-evaluate the established prehistoric timelines. These findings challenge previous assumptions about the existence and evolution of ...

The footprints are the first clear evidence that the two hominin species shared a habitat, raising questions about whether their interactions shaped human evolution.

Island Southeast Asia has one of the largest and most intriguing hominin fossil records in the world. But our new research suggests there is another prehistoric human species waiting to be discovered ...

Where did we come from? Prehistoric fossils may rewrite human evolution New studies on a curious prehuman species raise doubts about our own ancestry ...

Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis, Humanizing Evolution, Current Anthropology, Vol. 53, No. S5, The Biological Anthropology of Living Human Populations: World Histories, National Styles, and International ...

However, it wasn’t immediately obvious which species of prehistoric human the team had found ... Chris Stringer, a research leader in human evolution at London’s Natural History Museum, said the ...