Learn how a digitally reconstructed 1.5-million-year-old fossil from Ethiopia is reshaping ideas about what early human ...

A team of international scientists, led by Dr. Karen Baab, a paleoanthropologist at the College of Graduate Studies, Glendale ...

Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an ...

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

Tickling, a seemingly involuntary reflex, evolved not for humor but for connection. It targets exposed areas, triggering ...

After decades of excavation and debate, a new analysis argues that Little Foot — one of the most complete hominin fossils ...

New fossils link a strange 3.4-million-year-old foot to Australopithecus deyiremeda, a species that mixed climbing skills ...

Australopithecus is an extinct group of ape-like modern human relatives—or potentially ancestors—that walked upright and ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is retracing the path of human migration. More specifically, the scientific ...

The discovery site at East Farm, Barnham, England lies hidden within a disused clay pit tucked away in the wooded landscape between Thetford and Bury St Edmunds. Professor Nick Ashton from the British ...

The findings, described in the journal Nature, push back the earliest known date for controlled fire-making by roughly ...

An international study led by researchers from Australia's La Trobe University and the University of Cambridge has challenged ...