Deep within the Rising Star cave system in South Africa, researchers believe that Homo naledi, a small-brained human ancestor ... a stone tool was found near a skeleton, potentially serving ...

Ronin, a 5-year-old African giant pouched rat ... skeptical A new study suggests the unique human version of the NOVA1 protein developed after our ancestors split from Neanderthals on the ...

In this way, DNA connects us not only with our ancestors ... humans—the taller, more graceful creatures with round skulls and prominent chins who first appear in the fossil record in eastern ...

This is the most common prehistoric animal and is a direct ancestor of the African elephants of today ... a dinosaur species and was the largest of all the species. It had a giant skull and a ...

An evolutionary chart of different human ancestors ... her visage using scans of Lucy’s skull coupled with soft tissue data from chimpanzees, whose brain is around as big as that of an ...

These were cut marks made by a human ancestor wielding ... hominins − our direct human ancestors. Other scientists have reported sites in Eurasia and northern Africa with either hominin fossils ...

His most prized find since joining the excavation team in 2013 was an early human hand bone. His father was part of the team that uncovered South Africa’s most famous find, a skeleton dubbed ...

South Africa ... a skeleton dubbed "Little Foot", in the caves. Deriving its name from the size of the bones first discovered in the 1990s, it is the most complete specimen of a human ancestor ...

An ancient jawbone discovered in Taiwan belonged to an enigmatic group of early human ancestors called Denisovans, scientists reported Thursday. Relatively little is known about Denisovans ...

An ancient jawbone discovered in Taiwan belonged to an enigmatic group of early human ancestors called Denisovans, scientists reported Thursday. Relatively little is known about Denisovans ...

A GROUNDBREAKING discovery of two mummies has revealed a previously unknown human ancestor from over 7,000 ... The fascinating North African beings are thought to have roamed the Sahara Desert ...