Relatively few fossils belonging to the enigmatic early human have been unearthed in the past. Two new studies describe seven ...

A trail of footprints preserved along an ancient lakeshore in Kenya is forcing a rethink of how big one of humanity’s extinct ...

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 ...

A cave in southwestern China has yielded seven fossils that belonged to an enigmatic population of extinct humans known as ...

Experts have been puzzled by recently discovered fossils from the hand of an extinct human relative, Paranthropus boisei. They have been surprised by a mix of human-like and gorilla-like traits in the ...

Yohannes Haile-Selassie has a talent for spotting fossils, and has discovered clues to several branches of the human family tree.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologists uncovered teeth from an ancient human ancestor in Ethiopia's Afar Region. - Amy Rector/Virginia Commonwealth ...

A 1.8 million-year-old human jawbone has been unearthed in the hills of Georgia — and scientists say the fossil could offer major clues into some of the earliest prehistoric human settlements in ...

More than 400,000-year-old Homo erectus teeth from China may reveal a surprising link between this ancient human species, Denisovans, and some modern people. Scientists found protein mutations ...

Ancient human fossils unearthed at three different caves in Spain reveal that cannibalism resurfaced among early Europeans in ...

Grooves on ancient human teeth, long attributed to deliberate toothpicking, also occur naturally in wild primates, indicating they may result from normal chewing or abrasive diets rather than tool use ...

South Africa has one of the world’s richest fossil records of hominins (humans and their fossil ancestors). But many misconceptions still exist regarding human evolution, and school textbooks contain ...