World’s oldest human-linked skeleton found. ... The 110-pound, 4-foot female roamed forests a million years before the famous Lucy, long studied as the earliest skeleton of a human ancestor.

DNA traced back 400,000 years. The skeleton of a Homo heidelbergensis from Sima de los Huesos, a unique cave site in Northern Spain. Javier Trueba/Madrid Scientific Films Dec. 4, 2013&#151 ...

Scientists working in South Africa now claim to have uncovered the most complete skeleton yet of this human ancestor. Dated at 2 million years, the remains were found hidden in a rock that were ...

Scientists reveal the most complete skeleton of a 3.6 million year old human ancestor ever found. By Mike Wehner. Published Dec 6th, ... That makes it one of the oldest human ancestors found, ...

The skeleton of a teenage girl, nicknamed Naia, was first found by a team of divers exploring the Hoyo Negro cave in 2007. The deep pit, part of a complex cave system, reaches more than 100 feet ...

The calcite-encrusted skeleton of an ancient human, still embedded in rock deep inside a cave in Italy, has yielded the oldest Neanderthal DNA ever found. Although modern humans are the only ...

The pelvis probably belonged to a young man who lived approximately 13,000 years ago, says Stinnesbeck, making it one of the oldest examples of a human found in the Americas.

Today, researchers announced they have obtained DNA sequences from the earliest human skeletal remains yet, a Spanish fossil from a site known as Sima de los Huesos, or pit of bones. Although the ...

A prehistoric human skeleton has been found in a cave system that was flooded at the end of the last ice age 8,000 years ago, according to a cave-diving archaeologist on Mexico's Caribbean coast.

Oct. 2 -- THURSDAY, Oct. 1 (HealthDay News) -- New details about the oldest skeleton from the human family tree suggest that human evolution was much more complicated than ever imagined. Fossil ...