Homo naledi are an extinct species of hominid that were first discovered in 2013 by Berger and his team. It’s estimated they lived between 200,000 to 300,000 years ago, while Neanderthals lived ...
The term “human” seems like a pretty specific classification but our prehistoric ancestors tell a very different story. Since ...
When the skeletal remains of more than a dozen hominins were first uncovered in the Dinaledi chamber of South Africa’s Rising Star cave system in 2013, researchers believed they had discovered a ...
88,000-Year-Old Finger Bone Pushes Back Human Migration Dates 88,000-Year-Old Finger Bone Pushes Back Human Migration Dates 88,000-Year-Old Finger Bone Pushes Back Human Migration Dates Seven ...
Researchers have uncovered evidence that members of a mysterious archaic human species buried their dead and carved symbols on cave walls long before the earliest evidence of burials by modern humans.
Scientists have long searched for the transitional species between apelike australopithecines, such as Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis), and early humans, such as Homo habilis. And now, deep in ...
The Earth has known fire for over 400 million years. The reason is simple: Life made it possible. Marine life pumped the atmosphere full of oxygen; terrestrial life lathered the crust with fuels.
Paleoanthropologist Dr. Steven E. Churchill answers your questions about cavemen and early human evolution from Twitter. What happened to the Neanderthals? Is there a chance Big Foot is real?
Marina stood at the mouth of the Rising Star cave and looked inside. Outside, it was the rainy season in this grassland part of South Africa, home to jackals and porcupines and cobra snakes and ...
How, when and where did modern humans evolve? Nobody has all the answers, but studying rock and dirt can put the debate on firmer footing. Homo naledi had a brain less than half the size of our own.
Paleoanthropologist Lee Berger, 51, searches for fossils of human ancestors—sometimes in unorthodox ways. He empowers early career scientists, makes all his data open source, and publicizes ...