Lucy's position in the history of human evolution is currently being challenged. The Lucy fossil species, or Australopithecus ...

Recent fossil finds could mean that "Lucy" wasn't our direct ancestor, some scientists say. Others strongly disagree.

Australopithecus is an extinct group of ape-like modern human relatives—or potentially ancestors—that walked upright and ...

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

An international study led by researchers from Australia's La Trobe University and the University of Cambridge has challenged ...

Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an ...

Early human ancestors called the LRJ Group lived in Europe for 80 generations, intermingling with Neanderthals, before ...

So when did our human ancestors start making tools? Well, the earliest artifacts that we know of date back more than 3 million years, but early finds had been scattered and inconsistent until new ...

(CNN) — Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same ...

What did that feel like for him?” Boddice asked. I stared for a few seconds while Boddice smiled encouragingly, as if he’d just asked me to solve a quadratic equation in my head. “I guess it probably ...

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

Evidence from a site in southeast England suggests early humans were purposefully and repeatedly igniting blazes roughly ...