In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...

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

After decades of excavation and debate, a new analysis argues that Little Foot — one of the most complete hominin fossils ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

A newly published scientific study is reigniting debate over human evolution in Africa after researchers suggested that the ...

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

A newly reconstructed fossil face from Ethiopia reveals surprising complexity in early human evolution. By digitally fitting together teeth and fossilized bone fragments, researchers reconstructed a ...

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool making, this year has given us a clearer picture of how and why humans evolved ...

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

Australian-led study suggests iconic South African skeleton differs from known Australopithecus species, media reports - ...

Specimen found in South Africa was widely thought to be member of ape-like human ancestor family that lived nearly 2 million ...

Some ants thrive by choosing numbers over strength. Instead of heavily protecting each worker, they invest fewer resources in ...