Fossilized bones discovered decades ago and hailed at the time as the oldest human remains found ... with dating technology--are the sole known human remains from the Old Stone Age (12,000 years ...

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.

scientists have found clue to the oldest known evidence of blue eyes in human history. The archaeologists were able to reconstruct the appearance, ancestry, and health from the remains of a 17,000 ...

NAGOYA, JAPAN—The Mainichi reports that the Middle Pleistocene fossils known as “Ushikawa Man,” once suggested to be the oldest known human remains in Japan, are actually bear bones.

In the 1950s, when they were discovered, the Ushikawa fossils were identified as parts of a human humerus (upper arm bone) and femur (leg bone), believed to be over 20,000 years old ...

According to a study, what scientists thought were the oldest human fossils found in Japan are actually the bones of a brown bear.

And it’s also home to the oldest known remains of a gorgonopsian, an important ancestor of modern mammals — a fact that could change our understanding of their migration and evolutionary history.