Simulations suggest Neanderthals were on the brink of extinction by the time our ancestors arrived on the Iberian Peninsula.

Every time you look in the mirror, you are seeing the legacy of an extinct cousin. A small but influential fraction of your ...

The Lucy fossil’s role in human evolution is debated: new discoveries question whether she was truly our direct ancestor.

Exchanging greetings and resolving to do something positive in the coming year certainly create an uplifting atmosphere.

But Tish Weinstock, a self-styled goth, had a darkly glamorous wedding well before it was trending (the beauty editor wrote a ...

They drew with crayons, possibly fed on maggots and maybe even kissed us: Forty millenniums later, our ancient human cousins ...

New study of 7-million-year-old fossils from Chad proves Sahelanthropus tchadensis walked upright while still climbing trees.

A fossil belonging to an ancient hominin that lived seven million years ago bears the hallmarks of bipedalism, according to a ...

Scientists may have cracked the case of whether a seven-million-year-old fossil could walk upright. A new study found strong ...

Using 3D technology and other methods, the team identified Sahelanthropus’s femoral tubercle, which is the point of ...

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