Katerina Harvati, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen The Apidima 1 fossil was found to be at least 210,000 years old, predating the previously oldest human fossil found outside of Africa by ...

Oldest Human Fossil Unearthed in Ethiopia At about 2.8 million years old, the Ledi jaw may belong to “the stem for the Homo genus,” according to its discoverers. Devin Powell.

The oldest fossil of the human genus Homo has been unearthed in Ethiopia, a groundbreaking discovery that pushes the history of human evolution 400,000 years further into the past.

Oldest Human Fossil Outside Africa Discovered. Part of an upper jaw found in Israel reveals that our species began making forays out of Africa more than 50,000 years earlier than thought.

This image provided by the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution in March 2025, shows a fossil of the left midface of a hominin between 1.1 million and 1.4 million years old ...

East Africa’s Oldest Modern Human Fossil Is Way Older Than Previously Thought Analysis of ash from a massive volcanic eruption places the famed Omo I fossil 36,000 years back in time.

Then, in 2007, the oldest human in Europe was found once again. This time, it was a human jawbone in the Sima del Elefante ...

Spanish archaeologists have named the oldest hominid ever found in Europe "Pink" after the legendary English rock band Pink Floyd. Remains of humankind's ancient ancestor, dating back 1.4 million ...

Humans, as we understand them, actually have a fairly ancient legacy on this planet. Anthropologists typically refer to any species in the genus Homo as human.. The oldest reliably classified fossils ...

Scientists discover oldest known modern human fossil outside of Africa. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2018 / 01 / 180125140923.htm.

It could also help bridge a gap in evolutionary space between the oldest known human ancestor fossils found in Europe — which are roughly 1.8 million years old and were discovered at a site in ...

U.S. Geological Survey. (2023, October 5). Oldest fossil human footprints in North America confirmed. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2023 / 10 ...