A newly identified crocodile species nicknamed “Lucy’s hunter” prowled Ethiopia’s rivers when Lucy’s species walked the Earth ...

For more than a century, human origins have been told as a story of expansion, migration, and survival. But deep in that story sits a long, quiet stretch when almost nothing seems to happen.

Rather than a single ancestral line steadily evolving toward modern humans, the evidence points to an evolutionary “bush” of ...

The discovery of fire was a major milestone in human evolution, giving our ancestors a way to stay warm, ward off predators, ...

In this new series, Human, paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi reveals our incredible story across 300,000 years of human evolution and how – with the help of the latest discoveries – we’re learning ...

A stunning discovery buried deep inside a cave for 1.8 million years is rewriting the story of human evolution.

Discover how recent findings challenge our understanding of human evolution! A remarkable 300,000-year-old fossil from ...

(CNN) — Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same ...

In 2001, researchers unearthed a scattering of fossils beneath the windswept dunes of the Djurab Desert of northern Chad. The remains were later identified as belonging to an extinct species, ...

Ancient encounters between humans and the mysterious Denisovans are still shaping people today. By analyzing genomes from populations across the Pacific, researchers uncovered evidence that the ...

Imagine a creature nearly twice the size of a modern African elephant (which can weigh up to 6,000kg [13,000 lbs]). This was Elephas (Paleoxodon) recki, a prehistoric titan that roamed the landscape ...