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

A new digital reconstruction of the face of an early Australopithecus specimen helps add details about the origins of our own ...

Little Foot, a 3.67 million-year-old human ancestor, is getting a digital facial reconstruction after her skull was crushed in a cave.

Little Foot” is the most complete Australopithecus fossil ever found. And now we finally have an idea of what this group of ...

Homo erectus skulls from China’s Yunxian archaeological site revealed ages close to two million years—a million years older ...

Certain species of wasps and frogs share a pain and inflammation peptide similar to one found in vertebrates to help defend against predators—a discovery that contributes to a shifting view of how ...

One eye-catching detail is the researchers’ estimate that the bone likely belonged to a small female, about 24 kg, and nicknamed “Diva.” Spassov noted the fossil seems to sit somewhere between older, ...

A new study suggests that the deadly insects evolved their taste for human blood much earlier than previously thought, around when Homo erectus migrated into Southeast Asia ...

When the two species got together tens of thousands of years ago, the hookups may have often involved a male Neanderthal and a female human, according to a new study. The findings, described February ...

Human beings have been at the center of ecological change on Earth for thousands of years. But as history shows, no species ...

Our story may not begin in Africa after all.