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

For years, a small set of foot bones from Ethiopia sat at the center of a quiet puzzle, so scientists kept circling back to ...

Over a century ago, anthropologist Raymond Dart chipped an ancient skull out of some rock from an ancient quarry — and revealed the face of an ancient human relative.

The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...

Learn how a new analysis challenges the traditional classifications for ‘Little Foot,’ a famous fossil hominin from South ...