Around 43,000 years ago, a Neanderthal dipped their finger in ocher and stamped the very center of a pebble. This one small ...

S cientists unearthed a granite pebble bearing the world's oldest known human fingerprint, left by a Neanderthal ...

Archaeologists discovered a human fingerprint left on a rock in Spain now considered the oldest known human fingerprint.

In a cave in northern Spain, researchers have discovered pieces of a fossilized face belonging to an ancient human ancestor — the oldest human fossil ever found in Western Europe. The remains ...

A team of European and African researchers used a method known as paleoproteomics to recover fragments of proteins from the ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest human face in Western Europe, potentially rewriting the story of human evolution. The ancient human nicknamed 'Pink' lived in Spain's Iberian Peninsula ...

Tourists at a beach house in South Carolina who thought they found fossils have accidentally discovered they found human remains at a forgotten 200-year-old burial site.

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 29,000-year-old bones of a child discovered in Thailand are the oldest human remains ever found in the country, archaeologists have announced. The child — nicknamed "Pangpond," after a Thai ...

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. Not only that, the items are ...

A few days later, the New York Times reported, “A person who died about 20,000 years ago and was buried beneath a pile of rocks may provide scientists with the oldest human skeleton found in ...