A rock sitting quietly in a university lab turned out to contain something far more remarkable than anyone realized: what may ...
A stunning fossil discovery in Ethiopia shows that early Homo and a previously unknown Australopithecus species lived together around 2.6 to 2.8 million years ago. The find overturns the classic ...
(Reuters) - The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances such as increased brain size. But scientists have struggled to ...
Homo habilis has long been described as the first species in the Homo genus, but its place in human evolution remains controversial. Fossils from Tanzania and Kenya show a mix of humanlike and ...
A young boy named Matthew Berger found important fossils in South Africa. These fossils, named Australopithecus sediba, ...
Researchers reveals how walking on two legs and expanding brain size drove the evolution of human right-handedness.
Scientists have finally come face-to-face with an ancient human ancestor called Little Foot. A new digital reconstruction reveals the visage of one of our oldest close human relatives, researchers ...