This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

The legendary “Little Foot” fossil may be an entirely new human ancestor. An international team of scientists led by ...

Scientists working in Ethiopia's Afar Region have made discoveries that rewrite our understanding of early human history. For ...

Paleoanthropologist Yohannes Haile-Selassie and field assistant Ali Kadir look at a hominin fossil specimen found in the Afar Rift region of Ethiopia in this undated image. Dale Omori/Handout via ...

Researchers from France, China, the UK, and Greece revealed that the Petralona cranium is at least 286,000 years old, placing it firmly in the Middle Pleistocene era. A new scientific study has shed ...

A new analysis of enigmatic skulls from the Republic of Georgia suggest that Homo erectus wasn't the only human species to ...

Human fossils uncovered in a cave at the Thomas I quarry near Casablanca are offering fresh insight into a critical phase of ...

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...

Ten fossil teeth belong to new Australopithecus species Found in Afar Region, they are 2.65 million years old This species coexisted with an early Homo species Fossils underscore complex nature of ...

A study of a handful of 300,000-year-old teeth revealed an ancient human group had a mix of archaic and modern tooth features. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

A badly crushed cranium unearthed decades ago from a riverbank in central China that once defied classification is now shaking up the human family tree, according to a new analysis.Related video above ...