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.

In an Iron Age burial ground surrounded by towering pines, rock fragments from the past have surfaced, and the faintly ...

Archaeologists in Norway have discovered fragments of the world’s oldest rune stone in Svingerud burial field, dating back to 50 BC–275 AD.

Tim Maloney, an archaeologist at Griffith University in Australia and coauthor of the paper, said in a press briefing that the case “rewrites the history of human medical ... team found the remains ...

The discovery that the Ushikawa fossils are not human means the oldest human ... Human fossil remains have also been found on Japan's Ryukyu Islands — also known as the Nansei Islands ...

scientists have found clue to the oldest known evidence of blue eyes in human history. The archaeologists were able to reconstruct the appearance, ancestry, and health from the remains of a 17,000 ...

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.

And it’s also home to the oldest known remains of a gorgonopsian, an important ancestor of modern mammals — a fact that could change our understanding of their migration and evolutionary history.