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

Scientists say early human relatives could have met the largest primate that ever lived. Gigantopithecus blacki stood nearly ...

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

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 ...

New evidence suggests that early humans reached the Jordan Valley at least 1.9 million years ago, hundreds of thousands of ...

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.

At a fossil site in northern Kenya, certain bones keep turning up the same way — limbs missing from the same spots, surfaces marked with the same cuts, and long bones cracked open in nearly identical ...

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 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 ...

A study of rare fossils has revealed what our ancient human ancestors, the Denisovans, might have looked like.

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 ...