In a new study, scientists have been able to use peptides taken from an ancient hominin to determine its sex – and at 3.5 ...

The international scientific community rebuffed this hypothesis. They were looking outside Africa for human origins and argued that the skull more likely belonged to a non-human primate. Dart was ...

New research shows that ancient humans, Australopithecus, had a plant-based diet, challenging long-held meat-eating theories.

Hominid footprints found on Crete date back 5.6 million years, making them by far the oldest ever discovered in Europe.

Researchers have extracted ancient proteins from australopithecine fossils and determined whether they were male or female — a first for human evolution studies.

Paranthropus capensis, a “gorilla-like” human relative that lived in southern Africa some 1.4 million years ago. A new study focuses on a hominin jawbone known as SK 15 that was unearthed in 1949 at ...

The new study revealed that the ancient jaw named SK 15 was originally unearthed in 1949 in a South African cave known as ...

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Specimens from Olorgesailie are among the last known bones of this species, which existed nearly 3 million years ago and ...