Housed in an unremarkable office block in the capital, the country’s national museum is home to the most extensive collection of the remains of modern humans’ ancestors – and a team of world-leading s...

Nearly a century ago, the discovery of a 2.5 million-year-old skull helped redefine our knowledge of ancient human ancestry. Here’s how it became a holographic National Geographic cover.

Two Australopithecus fossils named Lucy and Selam made a rare trip out of Ethiopia for a 60-day display at the National Museum in Prague

As Indonesia builds a new capital city, the race is on to preserve the sounds of the rainforest before they vanish forever

Yohannes Haile-Selassie has a talent for spotting fossils, and has discovered ancestors on several branches of the human family tree.

New evidence from fossils representing two groups of human ancestors—Australopithecus and early Homo—adds an important piece to the puzzle about when our ancestors transitioned f...

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A genomic reconstruction suggests Denisovans inherited 3 to 5 percent of their DNA from a much older unidentified lineage before passing a fraction onward to modern humans.

A hunter-gatherer who lived in Indonesia as early as 25,000 years ago may have regularly sucked on betel nuts to release their psychoactive properties.

Anthropologists have discovered the first-ever Denisovan arm bone in a cave in southwest China, which also held thousands of prehistoric animal bones and stone tools.

Identification and proteomic analysis of bone fragments and teeth from an excavation in Southwest China provide insight into the evolution and phenotype of Denisovans and fill a geographical gap in th...

Evidence from Bianfu Cave shows specialized hunting, expedient stone-tool production and extensive bone use of Denisovans, providing new insights into their ecology, behaviour and cultural legacy in e...

Teeth and bone fragments unearthed in a cave in China, along with animal bones and stone tools, help paint a picture of Denisovan life.

The fossil record is forcing scientists to rewrite when and where human ancestry split into separate branches, upending decades of assumptions about our evolutionary path.

Togo-sponsored resolution called to phase out traditional map that depicts continent as similar size to Greenland

Objectives Although there has been copious research on the postcranial functional morphology of Homo floresiensis, there has been relatively little study of its pelvis and its implications for inter...

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Objectives Although there has been copious research on the postcranial functional morphology of Homo floresiensis, there has been relatively little study of its pelvis and its implications for inter.....

On 15 August 2026, a magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck Flores Island (East Nusa Tenggara, NTT), killing at least 47 people and injuring dozens. Hundreds of homes and public buildings were destroyed (157 homes heavily damaged). Beside NTT, Earthquake also hit communities in Simalungun (North Sumatra) and Parigi Moutong (Central Sulawesi). By delivering staple food packages, safe drinking water, emergency shelters, and health services, thi campaign will help prevent hunger and disease.

The cave of Les Pradelles (Marillac-le-Franc, France) was repeatedly visited by Neandertals ~55 000 years ago and is a key site in discussions of Neandertal cannibalism. Excavations between 1967 and ...

Stone tools from a lakeside site in Saudi Arabia hint that Neanderthals were adapted to the arid Arabian interior, not just to cold places.

South African molecular scientist Palesa Madupe expected proteins preserved in fossil enamel to clarify why Homo naledi remains look so alike. Instead, teeth from at least 20 individuals yielded no ma...

A chance find of rare rock crystal tools a century ago paved the way for a better understanding of Neanderthals today.

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