Little Foot is a nearly complete ancient skeleton found in the Sterkfontein caves in South Africa that could change how ...

At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

Recent fossil discoveries lend credence to the fascinating proposition that non-human species may have coexisted alongside our early human forebears. These unearthed remnants provide a glimpse into ...

On Valentine’s Day in 2018, a team of scientists walked across a flat expanse in the badlands of northeastern Ethiopia, scanning the ground for fossils. An eagle-eyed field assistant, Omar Abdulla, ...

(Reuters) -Researchers have unearthed tooth fossils in Ethiopia dating to about 2.65 million years ago of a previously unknown species in the human evolutionary lineage, one that lived in the same ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A REPLICA of the remains of a more than 3-million-year-old female hominid known as "Lucy" at the National Museum in Addis Ababa ...

Discover evidence of ancient hominins coexisting with early humans in Indonesia 200,000 years ago. A groundbreaking find for human evolution research.

In the latest twist in human evolution, scientists have discovered that a mysterious foot found in Ethiopia belonged to a previously unknown ancient relative. Dated to around 3.4 million years ago, ...

Long before humans became master hunters, our ancestors were already thriving by making the most of what nature left behind. New research suggests that scavenging animal carcasses wasn’t a desperate ...

Our species, Homo sapiens, has been evolving for more than 300,000 years, but the story of human origins starts much earlier. Since evolving from the common ancestor that we share with our closest ...