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.

A 17- to 18-million-year-old ape fossil discovered in Egypt is challenging long-held beliefs about where the ancestors of ...

A new hypothesis links collected stones and old tools with personal memory, proposing a possible feedback between material ...

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

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 ...

A 1.45-million-year-old shin bone discovered in northern Kenya has revealed a disturbing possibility about human evolution: our ancient relatives may have been eating one another hundreds of thousands ...

Announced October 21, 2026 — About 200,000 years ago, the mysterious Denisovan humans come into view — Ancient proteins left ...