This allowed them to reconstruct a family tree showing which fossils belonged to the same groups. The Eurasian hominins clustered into three groups: modern humans, Neanderthals and H. longi .

A discovery of the articulating hip, thigh, and shin bones of Paranthropus robustus, has revealed the story of a young female, the smallest known adult hominin yet to be found, who habitually ...

They found many fossils of dinosaurs from 84 million to 75 million years ago – and then that number drops in the following 9 million years leading up to the Chicxulub impact. But there was more.

Yet more evidence that Neanderthals were like us. A stash of 15 marine fossils has been found in a Neanderthal cave in northern Spain, indicating that the extinct hominids may have developed a ...

Fossils of an extinct animal may have inspired this cave art drawing. Roughly 200-year-old African rock art predates the scientific description of dicynodonts.