New volcanic dating from Ethiopia’s Omo Kibish formation has pushed the age of Homo sapiens fossils back to at least 233,000 years. These remains predate all known modern humans and align closely with ...

Found in a Greek cave in 1959, the Petralona skull has puzzled scientists for decades. Dated to nearly 700,000 years ago, it displays features of both Homo erectus and early Homo sapiens. Its age and ...

Ardi is the oldest known partial skeleton of a hominin and shows foot features that are transitioning from vertical climbing to bipedal walking. While Ardi has the primitive grasping big toe of the ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...

For years, key fossils were thought by many paleontologists to be juvenile examples of Tyrannosaurus rex, which lived between 67 million and 66 million years ago in western North America. Rather than ...