New burial dating techniques applied to South African cave sediments reveal that Australopithecus fossils are far older than previously believed. The revised dates reshape early human evolution and ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 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 ...

New study of 7-million-year-old fossils from Chad proves Sahelanthropus tchadensis walked upright while still climbing trees.

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