For years, scientists believed that Homo erectus was the first human species to venture out of Africa around 1.8 million ...

The Moroccan fossils now provide tangible evidence from this mysterious transitional period. What makes these fossils particularly significant is the precision with which they can be dated. The ...

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

The way Sahelanthropus tchadensis moved has long been debated. The discovery of a small bump on the front of the thigh bone ...

A new study theorizes that evolution ticks at different speeds, especially when a big group of organisms first appears.

Ancient fossils from Moroccan caves, dated with rare precision, offer rare insight into early human evolution.

Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a ...

The pelvis is often called the keystone of upright movement. It helps explain how human ancestors left life on all fours ...

What did researchers find? A 1.6-to-1.5-million-year-old skull from Ethiopia combines features from two different stages of ...

What made humans behave differently to their closest relatives? Researchers have long sought an answer in a handful of genetic differences between Homo sapiens and our close relatives the Neanderthals ...

Scientists discover new species of human ancestors, Homo juluensis. Credit: Adam Fagen, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 A team of researchers has identified a new human species that vanished approximately 200,000 ...

Australian researchers think the skeleton found in South Africa is not the same species as two found in the same South Africa cave system Little Foot, one of the world’s most complete hominin fossils, ...