The oldest human viruses, including herpes, have been uncovered in 50,000-year-old Neanderthal bones - and experts could soon recreate them. Researchers at Brazil's Federal University of São ...

Their dream came spectacularly true on that momentous day in 1974. The Lucy fossil preserved skull fragments and a lower jaw with teeth, as well as parts of the arm, leg, pelvis, spine and ribs—47 ...

This age means the footprints may have been left by Homo antecessor, an early human species known to be present in Europe at that time. Not only are the footprints the earliest evidence yet of humans ...

That date range makes Misliya-1 the oldest human fossils outside Africa as well as a contemporary of the humans found at Herto and Omo Kibish in Ethiopia. The Ethiopian fossils, however, like the ...

The science team refers to her simply as USR1. "These are the oldest human remains ever found in Alaska, but what is particularly interesting here is that this individual belonged to a population ...

These genomes provide a glimpse into some of the oldest human cultures ever discovered, showing remarkable similarity to modern local populations. Scientists from the University of Cape ...

Eastern Africa's oldest human fossils are even more ancient than researchers thought, a new study suggests. Now, an international team of scientists determined that the fossils were buried beneath ...

A court in Russia has ordered the country's oldest human rights organisation to be closed down. The Moscow Helsinki Group (MHG) was founded in 1976 and reports annually on the human rights ...

Damascus, SANA – Syria has always known as the cradle of ancient great civilizations and home to the oldest human settlements in the world, a fact that has been demonstrated by archaeological ...