Fossilized bones discovered decades ago and hailed at the time as the oldest human remains found in Japan turn out to be from a prehistoric bear, a new analysis shows.

Scientists say they have recovered the oldest known Homo sapiens DNA from human remains found in Europe, and the information is helping to reveal our species’ shared history with Neanderthals.

The 3.18-million-year-old remains of Lucy, one of the oldest human ancestors, will be displayed in Europe for the first time ever.

Scientists uncovered evidence of the oldest hominin presence in Europe in modern-day Romania nearly two million years ago.

Human fossil remains have also been found on Japan's Ryukyu ... of these fossils date from about 18,000 years ago, while the oldest may date from up to 32,000 years ago. The latest finding in ...

Analysis of the human remains, and dating of the site and the fossil itself, indicate a likely age of at least 177,000 years for the fossil—making it the oldest member of the Homo sapiens clade ...

The oldest ever DNA relating to modern ... considered a “‘lost branch’ of the human family tree”, was obtained from bone remains found in the German town of Ranis – with one researcher ...

The cases include two sets of human remains, a man and a woman ... they believe show what individuals may have looked like ...

"They had been there for an extended period of time," police said. Human remains that had been decomposing “for an extended period of time” have been discovered just off of a public hiking ...

the oldest so far in Okinawa Prefecture. The human remains will be on display at the Amawari Park history and culture facility until Nov. 21.

A very special birthday was recently celebrated in Hawaii: Earlier this month, on April 12th, the oldest “patient ... to the power of hope and the human spirit,” Governor Josh Green wrote ...