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 ...

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

Scientists say they have solved the mystery of the Burtele foot, a set of 3.4 million-year-old bones found in Ethiopia in 2009. The fossils, along with others unearthed more recently, have now been ...

Scientific evidence from the last decade continues to correct the classical model of human origin. Australopithecus Afarensis, the species to which the legendary Lucy belonged, discovered in 1974, was ...

BOSTON (WHDH) - The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner removed what appears to be a human skull that was encased in concrete in Boston Friday morning. The skull was unearthed at a construction site ...

The Omo-Turkana Basin, where the Omo River drains into Lake Turkana in Africa, has been one of the three most valuable regions for the study of hominin evolution in Africa. Since the 1960s, many large ...

Fossil evidence from Ethiopia has rewritten human history, showing Australopithecus lived one million years earlier than previously believed. These new findings bridge the gap between early ape-like ...

These skulls, though, are only the latest in a decades-long trend that, according to United States Patent and Trademark Office records, saw the rate of skulls and skeletons in American logos increase ...

A human skull dating back millennia was discovered on a riverbank in eastern Indiana, a local coroner announced Oct. 13. Fayette County Coroner Eddie Richardson said a skull found over the summer has ...

Human remains from ancient times were discovered several months ago along a riverbank in rural Indiana, officials announced this week. Scientific analyses, including carbon dating, confirmed that the ...

The skull dates to around 2300 B.C., the coroner's office said. A human skull that dates back to 2300 B.C has been discovered in Indiana in a "powerful and humbling reminder" of the area's long ...