Australopithecus is an extinct group of ape-like modern human relatives—or potentially ancestors—that walked upright and ...

In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...

(Reuters) - The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances such as increased brain size. But scientists have struggled to ...

This year, researchers made impressive discoveries across 3 million years of human evolution, most of which relied on DNA, ...

A WORLD-FAMOUS fossil nicknamed “Little Foot” may actually belong to a new humanlike species. The fossil was previously ...

Recent fossil finds could mean that "Lucy" wasn't our direct ancestor, some scientists say. Others strongly disagree.

An international study led by researchers from Australia's La Trobe University and the University of Cambridge has challenged ...

New York and Johannesburg – An international team of scientists from New York University, the University of the Witwatersrand and 15 other institutions announced today in the open access journal ...

An international team of scientists from New York University, the University of the Witwatersrand, and 15 other institutions announced today, in the open access journal e-Life, the discovery of ...

An ancient human relative was able to walk the ground on two legs and use their upper limbs to climb and swing like apes, according to a new study of 2 million-year-old vertebrae fossils. An ...

Life reconstruction of Australopithecus sediba com-missioned by the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History. Credit: Sculpture: Elisabeth Daynes/Photograph: S. Entressangle Life ...