An analysis of bones from ancient people who once lived in Colombia has discovered DNA that does not directly connect them to ...

In a cave in northern Spain, researchers have discovered pieces of a fossilized face belonging to an ancient human ancestor — ...

That would make his remains the oldest ever found in North America ... Kennewick Man, perhaps the best known and most controversial ancient human remains in the United States, was found jutting from a ...

After six years of analysis, fossil hunters in Africa have confirmed the discovery of the oldest fossilized remains of modern ... early modern humans we have ever found and the best dated ...

Scientists today announced the discovery of the oldest fossil skeleton of a human ancestor ... today's apes—would eventually be found at the root of the human family tree.

Authorities said that tourists visiting a South Carolina island came across centuries-old human skeletal remains.

The first fossil skeleton of a human ever discovered was found, in 1823 ... Hublin emphasized that identifying the oldest known human remains doesn’t mean they were the first—far from it.

Archaeologists discovered a human fingerprint left on a rock in Spain now considered the oldest known human fingerprint. Experts believe a Neanderthal intentionally made the print roughly 43,000 years ...

Two trails of ancient human footprints left by humans ... They are also the oldest footprints attributed to humans to ever be found in the region, scientists wrote in the paper.

Fossilized bones discovered decades ago and hailed at the time as the oldest human remains found in Japan turn out to be from a prehistoric bear, a new analysis shows. Not only that, the items are ...