Purdue's Darryl Granger and Marc Caffee have determined the age of a fossilized skeleton thought to be an Australopithecus – a genus of African hominids from which humanity is thought to have ...

A new species of hominin or humans has been discovered in Northern China with an unforgettable physical feature— large heads. Everyone knows the Neanderthals, homo sapiens, and Denisovans are amongst ...

Little Foot, a nearly complete hominid skeleton painstakingly excavated from rock inside a South African cave, shouldered a powerful evolutionary load. This 3.67-million-year-old adult female sports ...

Paleoanthropologists from the University of California, Berkeley, and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History have found more fossils of a nearly 6-million-year-old human ancestor first reported three ...

A newly documented species, called Australopithecus sediba, was an upright walker that shared many physical traits with the earliest known Homo species -- and its introduction into the fossil record ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...

An ancient hominid skeleton dubbed Little Foot possessed a brain largely similar to that of modern chimpanzees and an inner ear with a mix of apelike and humanlike features, two studies suggest. These ...

Two years ago, nine-year-old Matthew Berger accompanied his dad, paleoanthropologist Lee Berger, to an archeological excavation site in South Africa. Running after his dog, he noticed an ...

The middle-aged woman and the young boy, perhaps her son or simply another member of her tribe, were out hunting on the African plains or maybe looking for water in the midst of a drought when they ...

Spanish archaeologists have named the oldest hominid ever found in Europe "Pink" after the legendary English rock band Pink Floyd. Remains of humankind's ancient ancestor, dating back 1.4 million ...

In this video segment, Don Johanson describes finding the knee joint in Hadar, Ethiopia, that first indicated a bipedal hominid had lived 3 million years ago. His subsequent expedition led to the ...

After more than two decades of work excavating and restoring the oldest hominid skeleton ever discovered in southern Africa, scientists have finally unveiled it to the public. According to CNN, the ...