When studying how fossil hominids moved, researchers usually analyze the morphology of bones—which is crucial for ...

A team of archaeologists say that artifacts found in England push back the earliest known date of hominids making fire some ...

Shizuka, a seven-year-old female Sumatran orangutan, seen in a cage before being transferred to Indonesia at Suvarnabhumi International Airport. CREDIT: SOPA Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — ...

When studying how fossil hominids moved, researchers usually analyse the morphology of bones — which is crucial for ...

Human evolution is not a straight line but a complex branching tree shared with other great apes. This overview explains the ...

Far up in the Ethiopian highlands, the resounding strike of stone against stone was probably a familiar one two million years ago. Ancient hominids chipped away to create simple tools: hammerstones ...

The oldest hominin fossils outside of Africa hail from Dmanisi in Georgia, yet the debate over which human species these ...

Prehistoric relatives of humans may have buried their dead and written symbols on cave walls — long before the oldest known human burials. That’s according to new findings presented at a conference at ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Our earliest ancestors probably behaved in a much more "human" way than most scientists have previously thought, according to a recent study that looked at early hominid fossils from ...