In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...

A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

Scientists have reconstructed the head of an ancient human relative from 1.5 million year-old fossilized bones and teeth. But ...

Revolutionary fossil evidence from Ethiopia is challenging decades of scientific consensus about human origins. New discoveries suggest that the famous Lucy fossil, long considered a direct ancestor ...

A 1.5-million-year-old skull fossil from Gona, Ethiopia now has a virtual face, thanks to digital reconstruction.

Researchers have discovered fossil human footprints embedded in an ancient lakebed that show humans inhabited North America during the Last Glacial Maximum, in what is now New Mexico. Credit: National ...

A newly published scientific study is reigniting debate over human evolution in Africa after researchers suggested that the ...

A remarkable fossil discovered in northern China suggests that multiple human species once shared the region around 150,000 ...

The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...

An international team of scientists, including the University of Wollongong (UOW), has found compelling evidence that a ...

Lucy's position in the history of human evolution is currently being challenged. The Lucy fossil species, or Australopithecus ...