A 1.5-million-year-old skull fossil from Gona, Ethiopia now has a virtual face, thanks to digital reconstruction.

Long after an animal’s soft tissues have vanished, its skull still carries a blueprint of how it sensed the world. For ...

A team of researchers led by the British Museum has unearthed the oldest known evidence of fire-making, dating back more than ...

Scientists used mtDNA to confirm what many researchers had long suspected: the Chinese “dragon man” Harbin skull belonged to ...

Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to ...