A 7.2-million-year-old femur found in Bulgaria reveals early signs of upright walking and reopens the debate on human origins ...

The Great Rift Valley in northern Kenya is one of the world’s most important scientific landscapes. On the shores of Lake ...

Walking on two legs has long been considered a milestone in human evolution and one of our most defining characteristics.

The discovery of a new fossil has once again turned our understanding of human evolution on its head. This monumental find suggests that hominins may have ventured out of Africa much earlier than ...

Homo juluensis was identified as a possible new human species that lived in eastern Asia about 300,000 years ago and vanished ...

A team of scientist dug up a quarry in Casablanca, Morocco, and what they found could be humanity's ancient ancestor that has confounded science for decades.

Archaeologists uncovered teeth from an ancient human ancestor in Ethiopia's Afar Region. - Amy Rector/Virginia Commonwealth University Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long ...

Fossils unearthed in Morocco from a little-understood period of human evolution may help scientists resolve a long-standing mystery: Who came before us? Three jawbones, including one from a child, ...

Scientists rebuilt the face of “Little Foot,” a 3.67-million-year-old fossil, uncovering new clues about early human ...

Two fossil skulls found in central China are prompting fresh debate over when they lived – and where they belong in the human family tree.