Homo habilis may not have been the "king" of the forest, according to a new study published in the journal Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. The study focuses on evidence that reveals that ...

As more and more fossil ancestors have been found, our genus has become more and more inclusive, incorporating more members that look less like us, Homo sapiens. By getting to know these other ...

Almost 2 million years ago, a young ancient human died beside a spring near a lake in what is now Tanzania, in eastern Africa. After archaeologists uncovered his fossilized bones in 1960, they used ...