Ancient Fossilized Jawbone Reveals Unknown Human Ancestor, Belongs to 1.4 Million-Year-Old 'Nutcracker Man’ Researchers ...

Scientists have used ancient proteins to determine the sex of a 3.5-million-year-old human relative, revealing new ...

New research indicates that hominins migrated into Eurasia approximately 200,000 years earlier than previously believed, ...

Understanding natural history presents a profound challenge. It involves trying to grasp the undocumented progress of countless millennia, such as the evolutionary journey of various species. One ...

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.

A paleontologist journeys through Indonesia’s Riau Archipelago in search of our earliest ancestors, and uncovers how ...

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 ...