Hominid footprints found on Crete date back 5.6 million years, making them by far the oldest ever discovered in Europe.

Indonesia believes that this act of cultural justice is not just about returning the objects themselves but also about ...

How do we know when they lived? Estimating the age of hominid fossils is usually a painstaking, two-part process, involving both "absolute" and "relative" dating. "Absolute" dating means finding a ...

He painstakingly removed a fossil skull from this material. A year later, on 7 February 1925, he published his description of ...

Feb. 14, 2025 — Ancient Egyptian mummified bodies smell 'woody,' 'spicy' and 'sweet', finds a new study, revealing new details about mumification ...

They say it's important to look to the past in order to move forward into the future. Humans have evolved considerably, but ...

This module incorporates lectures and practical demonstration (laboratory) sessions to explore the application of anatomical principles to the comparison and interpretation of the hominid and primate ...

Scientists analyzed fossilized teeth from the Sterkfontein cave in South Africa, a site rich in hominid fossils. The nitrogen isotopes measured in these samples indicate that Australopithecus were ...

Ancient Humans Had a ‘Herbivorous’ Diet, Nitrogen in Fossils Revealed a Lack of Meat Consumption Recent examinations imply that meat possibly did not have as big of a role in human evolution, as ...

The remains will be presented alongside Selam, the fossil of a baby Australopithecus who was about 100,000 years older than .