Bone strength in seven fossils shows early Homo committed to the ground, while Australopithecus kept the arm strength of a climbing ape.

New fossil discoveries are reshaping scientists’ understanding of a pivotal chapter in human evolution, revealing that several human ancestor lineages lived side by side nearly 3 million years ago.

Scientists have reconstructed the face of a 315,000-year-old Homo sapiens using ancient fossils from Morocco and modern 3D ...

Learn how advanced scanning and 3D reconstruction revealed the face of the Little Foot fossil and new insights into Australopithecus and early human evolution in Africa. Few early human fossils are as ...

The familiar claim about humans evolving from apes leaves out an important part of the story. Fossils and DNA reveal a much ...

Primitive hominids may have lived in Africa at the same time as humans, researchers said Tuesday, in new findings that could change the understanding of human evolution. Fossils found deep in South ...

Most of what we knew about early modern humans has been turned upside down in the past two decades – and many more questions ...

RABAT — A newly announced fossil discovery is further cementing Morocco’s central place in the prehistory of humanity. On Jan. 7, Moroccan and international researchers revealed the unearthing of ...

LAWRENCE — A new study from the University of Kansas complicates the picture of primates living in North America some 55 million years ago during the Eocene, a warm period that allowed mammals to ...