At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

Along a quiet stretch of coastline in eastern England, a short window of low tide revealed something rarely seen in Europe.

Little Foot is a nearly complete ancient skeleton found in the Sterkfontein caves in South Africa that could change how ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A REPLICA of the remains of a more than 3-million-year-old female hominid known as "Lucy" at the National Museum in Addis Ababa ...

The legendary “Little Foot” fossil may be an entirely new human ancestor. An international team of scientists led by ...

Discover evidence of ancient hominins coexisting with early humans in Indonesia 200,000 years ago. A groundbreaking find for ...

The generally accepted theory of the spread of ancient humans from Africa, where they first evolved, known as “Out of Africa,” holds that a single species, Homo erectus, subsequently migrated to ...

Learn about the most complete Homo habilis fossil ever found, and how this fossil is changing what we know about human ...

Ethiopian researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery that fundamentally challenges our understanding of human evolution by uncovering fossil evidence of a previously unknown species that ...

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 ...

UNLV Anthropology Professor Brian Villmoare and a team of scientists discovered fossilized teeth. UNLV Anthropology Professor Brian Villmoare and a team of international scientists discovered ...