Excavated with colonial labor and shipped to the Netherlands, the famous fossil is being repatriated to Indonesia along with ...

After comparing shapes, depths, and pressure patterns, this study found that two different hominin species left footprints in ...

A new study by a Utah anthropologist, based on genetic evidence, concludes that the colonizers of Sahul arrived later than ...

A one-million-year-old skull discovered in central China could push back the origins of modern humans by at least half a ...

When Homo sapiens and Neanderthals interbred, a genetic variation affecting red blood cells may have hindered reproduction in ...

Researchers have unearthed near Lake Turkana in northern Kenya fossils of hand and foot bones belonging to an extinct human ...

(Reuters) -Researchers have unearthed near Lake Turkana in northern Kenya fossils of hand and foot bones belonging to an ...

A study of a million-year-old skull from China has potentially rewritten the early chapter of human evolution.

Poisoning by lead is usually thought of as a disease of relatively modern civilisations. Yet in a paper just published in ...

Hand fossils unearthed in Kenya reveal that an extinct human relative called Paranthropus boisei had unexpected dexterity and ...

From ancient apes to modern humans, this video breaks down the entire evolutionary timeline. Learn how hominids split from other great apes, when bipedalism began, and how species like Homo habilis, ...