A 1.6-million-year-old Ethiopian skull blends ancestor and descendant features, rewriting the origin story of Homo erectus.

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

When studying how fossil hominids moved, researchers usually analyze the morphology of bones—which is crucial for ...

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

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

Learn how a digitally reconstructed 1.5-million-year-old fossil from Ethiopia is reshaping ideas about what early human ...

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 ...

For decades, a neat story about human origins has floated through textbooks and documentaries: modern humans emerged in East ...

Newfound fossils in modern-day Ethiopia suggest that the mysterious foot belonged to a recently named species, Australopithecus deyiremeda. The finding could alter the story of human evolution ...

Modern humans did not evolve from monkeys or any other animal that lives today. Humans continue to evolve but the traits we pass down aren't always for the species' betterment. "Survival of the ...

The domestication of dogs began around 15,000 years ago, when wolves first started to be domesticated by humans. It is believed that early humans tamed wolves and eventually bred them to create the ...

Humans likely harvested their first flames from wildfire. When they learned to make it themselves, it changed everything.