Unearthed in 1998 in South Africa’s Sterkfontein Caves, the skeleton known as StW 573, nicknamed Little Foot, is among the ...

For decades, scientists believed modern humans came from one main ancestral group in Africa, an idea known as the 'Out of Africa' model. But new DNA research suggests the story may be far more ...

The 18-million-year-old jawbone is challenging a long-held theory about where the distant ancestors of humans and other ...

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.

July 22, 2026 Ancient fern savannahs may have transformed parts of Europe into a wildfire-prone inferno during the end-Triassic mass extinction. New fossil evidence suggests the ferns repeatedly ...

A 17- to 18-million-year-old ape fossil discovered in Egypt is challenging long-held beliefs about where the ancestors of ...

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 ...

Primitive hominids may have lived in Africa at the same time as humans, researchers said Tuesday, in new findings that could change the understanding of human evolution. Fossils found deep in South ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...