New burial dating techniques applied to South African cave sediments reveal that Australopithecus fossils are far older than ...

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 ...

Paleoanthropologists have announced the world's most complete skeleton of Homo habilis, a human ancestor that lived more than ...

A seven-million-year-old fossil may mark the moment our ancestors first stood up and walked.

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

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

A 26-ft (8-m) deep excavation in Indonesia has revealed that humans and a hominin species that pre-dates humans used the same ...

Bonds between same-sex individuals help apes and monkeys to manage conflict and strengthen alliances, especially in dry ...

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