Early human ancestors called the LRJ Group lived in Europe for 80 generations, intermingling with Neanderthals, before ...

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 ...

SAO PAULO, Brazil – A 114-year-old Brazilian woman is the world’s oldest living human, Guinness World Records said Wednesday. Maria Gomes Valentim attributes her longevity to eating a daily roll of ...

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 between ...

Spanish researchers have found the remains of a facial fragment in Atapuerca, in northern Spain, which has been identified as the oldest known face in Western Europe, with an age of between 1.1 and ...

The research team at the Atapuerca archaeological sites in Burgos, Spain, has just broken its own record by discovering, for the third time, the oldest human in Western Europe. The team did so for the ...

Peru’s Andean mountains may hold the secret to longevity and the world’s oldest ever person, if a new claim by state officials of a 124-year-old man born in 1900 are proven to be true. The country’s ...

A French woman believed to be the world’s oldest person has died shortly before her 119th birthday. Lucile Randon, a nun known as Sister André, was born in the town of Ales in southern France on Feb.

A fossilized human footprint found in southern Chile has been dated to 15,600 years ago, making it the oldest known footprint ...

Fossils are like time capsules, offering us a rare chance to glimpse the distant past. Over the years, a number of ancient human fossils have been discovered, helping scientists piece together the ...

In a new study, an international research team found that pre-Neolithic people in Southeast Asia were mummifying their died by smoke-drying them. This would make them the oldest human mummies made ...

The cave had been occupied for nearly two million years up until the early 1900s — intriguing researchers about its value You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have ...