This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

(Reuters) - The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances such as increased brain size. But scientists have struggled to ...

One of the most complete human ancestor fossils ever found may belong to an entirely new species, according to an ...

Humans are fundamentally technological creatures. We depend on the manufacture and use of tools for our survival to a degree qualitatively greater than any other species. Therefore, an understanding ...

An international research team led by scientists from La Trobe University in Australia and the University of Cambridge is questioning how one of the ...

The ape-like human ancestor Australopithecus—perhaps best known from the iconic fossil ‘Lucy’—might not have had much meat on its menu. After examining more than 3.3-million-year-old remains from ...

Here are 10 major findings about human ancestors and our close ancient relatives that scientists announced in 2025. A handful of teeth found at the Ledi-Geraru site in Ethiopia suggest that diverse ...

Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same place ...

The classification of one of the most complete human ancestor fossils ever discovered, the skeleton known as Little Foot, has been called into question by an international research team led from La ...

UNLV anthropology professor Brian Villmoare (right, in blue shirt) and colleagues screening at the Ledi-Geraru research site in 2018. The discovery of new fossils and a new species of ancient ancestor ...

Fred Spoor is at the Centre for Human Evolution Research, Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK, and in the Department of Human Origins, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, ...