Researchers have discovered fossil human footprints embedded in an ancient lakebed that show humans inhabited North America during the Last Glacial Maximum, in what is now New Mexico. Credit: National ...

Ancient Fossilized Jawbone Reveals Unknown Human Ancestor, Belongs to 1.4 Million-Year-Old 'Nutcracker Man’ Researchers ...

Researchers have extracted ancient proteins from australopithecine fossils and determined whether they were male or female — ...

Dec. 5, 2024 — A new study suggests that the fundamental abilities underlying human language and technological culture may have evolved before humans and apes ... A Fossil First: Scientists Find ...

Researchers have believed since the 1960s that the fossil jaw, unearthed at the Swartkrans archaeological site, belonged to an early human species called Homo ergaster. But new X-ray scans of the ...

Park officials didn’t say how the fossil came to their attention. Evidence of human occupation at the park dates back 10,000 ...

It shows many of the marks on the fossil human bones to be consistent with marks on animal bones that had been cut up and consumed, researchers say. Some fossil bones even appear to have been ...

Park officials didn’t say how the fossil came to their attention. Evidence of human occupation at the park dates back 10,000 years. Remains of ancient animals have been found in a cave near the ...