An international research team has unveiled a significant discovery in human paleontology: an exceptionally well-preserved ...

Learn about the most complete Homo habilis fossil ever found, and how this fossil is changing what we know about human ...

A recently found jawbone, arm bone fragment and teeth collected from an archaeological site in Indonesia revealed a diminutive ancestor of humans dubbed a "hobbit" who lived around 700,000 years ago.

The oldest evidence of mummification has been discovered in Vietnam, in the form of a single 14,000-year-old mummified arm. Unlike the Egyptian mummification practice more familiar to modern Western ...