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

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 ...

These fossils may be the best candidate for 'African populations lying near the root of this shared ancestry.' ...

An ancient cremation would have been a community spectacle in a place returned to and reignited over many generations. What ...

Scientists uncover fossils suggesting Sahelanthropus tchadensis, a 7-million-year-old ancestor, could walk upright. Could ...

It's considered one of the most decisive steps in human evolution. Now, scientists believe they have pinpointed when our ...

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 ...

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

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

A landmark study of an ancient thigh bone confirms when our earliest ancestors stood upright. This discovery proves that the ...

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