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

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

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

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

A newly reconstructed fossil face from Ethiopia reveals surprising complexity in early human evolution. By digitally fitting together teeth and fossilized bone fragments, researchers reconstructed a ...

Evidence from a site in southeast England suggests early humans were purposefully and repeatedly igniting blazes roughly ...

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

Researchers say they’ve uncovered new evidence in present-day England that could reshape our understanding of human evolution ...

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

Australian-led study suggests iconic South African skeleton differs from known Australopithecus species, media reports - ...

A groundbreaking discovery reveals that early humans, possibly Neanderthals, were using tools to create fire more than ...