Uranium dating places the age of the Petralona skull at 300,000 years, revealing a human lineage distinct from Neanderthals ...

Articulated skull length 53.5 inches, weighing approximately 160.25 lbs. 30 bones (of an approximate total of 39), with additional cast elements, as well as 29 teeth represented in various states of ...

A nearly 7-million-year-old skull recently described as the earliest known member of the human evolutionary family instead represents an ancient ape, say anthropologist Milford H. Wolpoff of the ...

Paleontologists have made an "amazing" fossil discovery in Australia that has shed new light on a giant and enigmatic prehistoric goose-like bird. A team from Flinders University in Australia ...