This undated photo provided by the Callao Cave Archaeology Project in April 2019 shows Callao Cave on Luzon Island of the Philippines, where the fossils of Homo luzonensis were discovered. This view ...

Near the northernmost tip of the Philippines is a deep, seven-chambered limestone cavern known as Callao Cave. In 2007, archaeologists digging in its chambers found a small finger bone — which, at ...

This undated photo shows Callao Cave on Luzon Island of the Philippines, where the fossils of Homo luzonensis were discovered. This view is taken from the rear of the first chamber of the cave, where ...

MANILA, Philippines — A cultural marker will be unveiled at the Callao Cave complex in Peñablanca town, Cagayan province, on Thursday, officially recognizing the cave as an “important cultural ...

Filipino archeologist Armand Salvador Mijares shows bones and teeth they recovered from Callao Cave belonging to a new specie they called Homo luzonensis. AP MANILA, Philippines — Archaeologists who ...

MANILA, Philippines — Archaeologists, who discovered fossil bones and teeth of a previously unknown human species that thrived more than 50,000 years ago in the northern Philippines, have called for ...

PEÑABLANCA, Cagayan — The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in Cagayan Valley has ordered the temporary closure of the Callao Caves here due to two recent rockfall incidents. The ...

Fossil bones and teeth belonging to at least three individuals found in a cave in the Philippines have revealed a new species of human that walked the earth nearly 50,000 years ago, researchers say.

MANILA, PhilippinesMANILA, Philippines — Archaeologists who discovered fossil bones and teeth of a previously unknown human species that thrived more than 50,000 years ago in the northern Philippines ...

A new species of human has been discovered in a cave in the Philippines. Named Homo luzonensis after the island of Luzon where it was found, the hominin appears to have lived over 50,000 years ago, ...

An ancient species of human has been discovered in a cave in the Philippines. As reported in the journal Nature on Wednesday, scientists discovered the species, which they call Homo luzonensis, on the ...