A discovery of the articulating hip, thigh, and shin bones of Paranthropus robustus, has revealed the story of a young female, the smallest known adult hominin yet to be found, who habitually ...

Unlike the widely studied Neanderthals, the first Denisova hominin skeletal fossils were discovered by Russian scientists in the Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains in 2008, leading to their ...

A fossil mandible (Penghu 1: 19,000 to 10,000 years ago) was discovered on the seabed of the Penghu Channel in Taiwan and reported as the first and oldest hominin fossil from Taiwan in 2015.

Besides Homo sapiens, no other hominin group—not even the hardy Neandertals—mastered such diverse environments. Photos of the Penghu 1 mandible viewed from right side (left) and top (right).

A fossil Pleistocene-age hominin jawbone discovered in Taiwan has now been identified as belonging to a Denisovan, according to a new paleoproteomic analysis of the remains. The findings provide ...

A bone discovered in Taiwan turns out to have belonged to a Denisovan, a lineage previously identified only thousands of miles away. By Carl Zimmer For decades, fishermen sailing off the coast of ...

Cicero Moraes/Pen News Discovered in Ethiopia in 1975 by American paleontologist Donald Johanson, this 3.5-foot female hominin skeleton confirmed that our early ancestors habitually walked on two ...

said, "Arabia has traditionally been overlooked in Africa-Eurasia dispersals, but studies like ours increasingly reveal its central place in mammalian and hominin migrations." ...

Naledi was a hominin, a member of a broad genus of species ancestral or closely related to humans. Where it slots into the evolutionary family tree is unclear, as it was a “biological mosaic ...

Other scientists have reported sites in Eurasia and northern Africa with either hominin fossils, stone tools or butchered animal bones from around this time. Our recently published research adds ...