When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The Petralona skull is a mysterious and important piece in the human evolution puzzle. This image ...

A skull that was found embedded in a cave wall in Greece more than 60 years ago may finally have an identification. A new dating of the minerals that surrounded and grew over the mysterious Petralona ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: “This is what it might have looked like at Schöningen in Lower Saxony 300,000 years ago,” Flavio Altamura, a fellow at the Senckenberg Centre for ...

Homo heidelbergensis is presented as a key link between earlier Homo species and later populations, potentially representing the last common ancestor of Neanderthals and modern humans. Fossils ...

Archaeologists working in Lower Saxony, have unearthed fossilized human footprints dating back about 300,000 years. The discovery, described in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews, represents the ...

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