A new study suggests the celebrated Taung Child - one of the most important fossils ever discovered - belonged to a far more complex world of early human relatives than scientists had imagined.

Geological dating places the Taung Child between 2.96 million and 3.03 million years old, while teeth and braincase ...

A remarkable discovery in a South African cave suggests that an extinct human relative may have created an all-female burial site more than 240,000 years ago. Scientists analyzed ancient proteins ...

Discover how a fossil is revealing a far more complex family tree that adapted to millions of years of climate change.

Nov. 5, 2026 A groundbreaking discovery is rewriting the story of human evolution, revealing that an ancient human species once thought to be an evolutionary dead end may have left genetic traces in ...

A 3D comparison of seven Neanderthal heels and 64 human counterparts suggests a distinctive foot posture suited to heavy ...

Mineralized “structures” discovered in the bone were the fossilized remains of red blood cells, according to a recent study.

HLEA enhancer delays early embryonic hindlimb bud outgrowth before functional enhancer redundancy rescues limb development.

In East Africa in the 1990s, Meave Leakey and the Hominid Gang discovered apelike creatures who walked upright four million ...

Through new research done at the Florisbad Research Station in the Free State, valuable information are available about the ...

In the bodies of those of us living today, the genes of ancient humans like 'Neanderthals' and 'Denisovans,' who should have already gone extinct, are still alive.'Why are the genes of extinct humans ...