New burial dating techniques applied to South African cave sediments reveal that Australopithecus fossils are far older than ...

The legendary “Little Foot” fossil may be an entirely new human ancestor. An international team of scientists led by ...

The Lucy fossil’s role in human evolution is debated: new discoveries question whether she was truly our direct ancestor.

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

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

An international research team has unveiled a significant discovery in human paleontology: an exceptionally well-preserved ...

Scientists may have cracked the case of whether a seven-million-year-old fossil could walk upright. A new study found strong ...

Learn about the most complete Homo habilis fossil ever found, and how this fossil is changing what we know about human ...

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 ...

The analysis of dental remains from Dmanisi in the Republic of Georgia has important implications regarding the balance and ...

A new fossil analysis supports the idea a human ancestor was walking upright far earlier than previously thought.