Between 14 September and 4 October 2025, a new excavation campaign was carried out at the renowned hominid site of Tighennif, in western Algeria
Although no formal burials have been documented, there are traces of Neanderthal funerary behaviors unearthed in the Iberian Peninsula
Earliest evidence discovered of interbreeding between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals: a five-year-old child from the Skhul Cave on Mount Carmel
To craft Oldowan tools, ancient human relatives at Nyayanga transported stones over long distances 600,000 years earlier than previously thought
Hominins had a taste for high-carb plants long before they had the teeth to eat them, providing first evidence of behavioral drive in the human fossil record
Human teeth unearthed at Hualongdong, China, offer fresh insights into hominin diversity in Asia during the late Middle Pleistocene
Interbreeding with Neanderthals may be responsible for modern-day brain condition, Chiari Malformation Type 1
Primate evolution comes into sharper focus – new radioisotopic dating, Argon-Argon (⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar), marks a breakthrough in the study of volcanic deposits
A fossil mandible was discovered on the seabed of the Penghu Channel in Taiwan; it belonged to a male Denisovan
Deciphering how the ancestors of the human species moved around: new insights on locomotion and bipedalism
