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.

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

When paleoanthropologists finally freed the skeleton called Little Foot from its stone prison in South Africa, they believed ...

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

New fossils link a strange 3.4-million-year-old foot to Australopithecus deyiremeda, a species that mixed climbing skills ...

College of Idaho students often discover that their professors bring remarkable real-world experiences into the classroom.

According to a Penn Museum press release, the exhibition explores Indigenous perspectives by incorporating first-person videos, Native languages, and interactive components such as weaving stations.

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has successfully completed a flyby of a three-mile-wide asteroid between Mars and Jupiter, sending back a video composed of 37 images. Called (52246) Donaldjohanson, it’s the ...

Lucy Johnson, left, and Margaret Cornell present their research about the Fountains to their fellow residents. (Photo courtesy of Fountains at Millbrook) Decades before the Fountains at Millbrook in ...

Anthropology department head Prof. Ashley Pickard (center) and anthropology students Olivia Miller (left) and Grace Doquilo pose with three hominids: (L-R) A male Neanderthal, Australopithecus ...