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.

The human remains were found to be as old as Britain's oldest complete skeleton, the Cheddar Man Two boxes of human remains rediscovered after 55 years have been found to be as old as the Cheddar ...

“In my view, this is the oldest and strongest published evidence for an IUP (Initial Upper Palaeolithic) presence of H. sapiens in Europe, several millennia before the Neanderthals disappeared,” Chris ...

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

A team of researchers from the University of Oslo uncovered fragments of runestones older than 2,000 years at the ancient ...

The bone fragments of Lucy, a 3.18 million year-old human ancestor which rarely leave Ethiopia, will go on display in Europe ...

Researchers from the University of Córdoba have uncovered the world’s oldest wine ... led by Gerard Talavera discovered six skeletal remains in a Roman tomb, including those of Hispana and ...

But no remains had been found to help fill in the gap ... pottery dating to about 10,000 years ago, the oldest so far in Okinawa Prefecture. The human remains will be on display at the Amawari ...