A partial skeleton weighing just 70 pounds is bridging a critical gap in the fossil record and redefining the timeline of ...

An international research team has announced the most complete fossil yet of Homo habilis (aka 'the handy man') – one of the ...

Learn about the most complete Homo habilis fossil ever found, and how this fossil is changing what we know about human ...

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

An international research team has unveiled a significant discovery in human paleontology: an exceptionally well-preserved ...

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

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 August 7, 2007. (photo credit: REUTERS/Barry Malone) Scientists studying ...

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

A seven-million-year-old skull found in Chad sits at the center of a long argument about human origins. The species, ...

Ethiopian researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery that fundamentally challenges our understanding of human evolution by uncovering fossil evidence of a previously unknown species that ...

The generally accepted theory of the spread of ancient humans from Africa, where they first evolved, known as “Out of Africa,” holds that a single species, Homo erectus, subsequently migrated to ...