The fossil record shows that our Homo erectus ancestors were the first hominins to show signs of adapting to life on the ...

Bone strength in seven fossils shows early Homo committed to the ground, while Australopithecus kept the arm strength of a climbing ape.

New fossil discoveries are reshaping scientists’ understanding of a pivotal chapter in human evolution, revealing that several human ancestor lineages lived side by side nearly 3 million years ago.

The crust beneath part of Kenya and Ethiopia is thinner than geologists thought, new measurements have found. That has important implications for the geology of the area and, more tentatively, could ...

Learn how advanced scanning and 3D reconstruction revealed the face of the Little Foot fossil and new insights into Australopithecus and early human evolution in Africa. Few early human fossils are as ...

A newly identified crocodile species nicknamed “Lucy’s hunter” prowled Ethiopia’s rivers when Lucy’s species walked the Earth more than 3 million years ago. The giant predator was likely the most ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American A complete thighbone would be an especially ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American MINNEAPOLIS—Newly discovered fossil ...

A 2 million-year-old flat-faced skull pulled from the sandstones of East Africa has shored up claims that at least three species of early humans once coexisted in an “evolutionary experiment” that saw ...