Scientists have discovered a potential new member of the human family tree. This mysterious species, named Homo juluensis, includes the enigmatic Denisovans — our ancient human relatives whose stories ...

To put this in perspective, the average modern human brain size is between 1,090 to 1,880 milliliters, and our famous cousin, the Neanderthals, ranged from 1,120 to 1,740 milliliters. What makes the ...

Fossils from Xujiayao. (Wu, 2024) "Although we started this project several years ago, we did not expect being able to propose a new hominin (human ancestor) species and then to be able to ...

Fossils from Xujiayao. (Wu, 2024) "Although we started this project several years ago, we did not expect being able to propose a new hominin (human ancestor) species and then to be able to organize ...

Scientists discover new species of human ancestors, Homo juluensis. Credit: Adam Fagen, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 A team of researchers has identified a new human species that vanished approximately 200,000 ...

Muddy footprints left on a Kenyan lakeside suggest two of our early human ancestors were nearby neighbours some 1.5 million years ago. The footprints were left in the mud by two different species ...

A University of Hawaiʻi researcher says he may have found a new human species called Homo juluensis, which includes mysterious groups like the Denisovans—ancient human relatives whose histories ...

Ancient footprints reveal that a thriving landscape 1.5 million years ago in what is now Kenya was able to accommodate two different species of hominin, living side by side. As Homo erectus and ...

(photo credit: Kevin G. Hatala, Chatham University /Handout via REUTERS) About 1.5 million years ago, individuals of two different species in the human evolutionary lineage trudged on a muddy ...

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In a first-of-its-kind discovery, a set of remarkable footprints found recently in East Africa has revealed that two species of extinct human ancestor crossed paths within hours of each other some ...