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

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

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

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

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

A team of international scientists, led by Dr. Karen Baab, a paleoanthropologist at the College of Graduate Studies, Glendale ...

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

Researchers say they’ve uncovered new evidence in present-day England that could reshape our understanding of human evolution ...

Jaw fossils found in northern Greece have been cited in claims that human evolution began in Europe rather than Africa. This ...

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

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

A: Goosebumps, scientifically known as piloerection, occur when tiny muscles called arrector pili contract at the base of ...