Millions of years ago, early humans lived in a world where survival was anything but guaranteed. Wild predators, unpredictable weather, and deadly diseases constantly threatened their existence. But ...

Early humans were not just scavengers. New research shows they actively butchered elephants, transforming survival and social ...

A partial skeleton weighing just 70 pounds is bridging a critical gap in the fossil record and redefining the timeline of ...

A nearly-complete adult jawbone, a partial adult jawbone, the jawbone of a child, a vertebrae and some teeth were discovered.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human relative could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, ...

Ancient fossils from Moroccan caves, dated with rare precision, offer rare insight into early human evolution.

Megan Malherbe is affiliated with the Institute of Evolutionary Medicine at the University of Zurich, and the Human Evolution Research Institute at the University of Cape Town. Understanding what the ...

In the dry, rugged badlands of Ethiopia’s Afar Region, a team of scientists has uncovered fossils that could change how you picture human evolution. These finds, dating back between 2.6 and 2.8 ...

An unidentified early hominin fossil that might be a new species confirms that Australopithecus and Homo species lived in the same region of Africa in the same time frame. When you purchase through ...

With the help of newly identified bones, an enigmatic 3.4-million-year-old hominin foot found in 2009, is assigned to a species different from that of the famous fossil Lucy providing further proof ...