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

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

A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia ...

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

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

Researchers have discovered fossil human footprints embedded in an ancient lakebed that show humans inhabited North America ...

Revolutionary fossil evidence from Ethiopia is challenging decades of scientific consensus about human origins. New discoveries suggest that the famous Lucy fossil, long considered a direct ancestor ...

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

A remarkable fossil discovered in northern China suggests that multiple human species once shared the region around 150,000 ...

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

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