One of the most complete human ancestor fossils ever found may belong to an entirely new species, according to an ...
Starting a fire led to advancements such as cooking, which unlocked nutrients that improved the size and cognition of the ...
A fossil belonging to an ancient hominin that lived seven million years ago bears the hallmarks of bipedalism, according to a ...
This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...
Understanding this crucial point in human history has focused on the Dmanisi Hominid Archaeological Site in Georgia where ...
Using 3D technology and other methods, the team identified Sahelanthropus’s femoral tubercle, which is the point of ...
New study of 7-million-year-old fossils from Chad proves Sahelanthropus tchadensis walked upright while still climbing trees.
A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.
Scientists may have cracked the case of whether a seven-million-year-old fossil could walk upright. A new study found strong ...