Fossils of 600-million-year-old "tiny humanoids" were discovered in Antarctica. A story perpetuated in some social media ...

In pursuit of knowledge, the evolution of humanity ranks with the origins of life and the universe. And yet, except when an ...

A small group of ancient humans discovered in South Asia has the potential to change evolution as most people know it.

Remarkably preserved footprints of Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei offer direct evidence that extinct hominin species ...

Many people look at human evolution chiefly to explain us, Homo sapiens. But we are the culmination of a long process of evolution—no more than 5 percent of the whole hominin story by time spent ...

Study provides first evidence of different bipedalism styles on same footprint surface, attributed to both species.

Early humans of Homo juluensis had a large head shape, with measurements notably larger than those of Neanderthals and Homo ...

A University of Hawaiʻi researcher says he may have found a new human species called Homo juluensis, which includes ...

A discovery in northern Kenya hints that two extinct species that were our ancient relatives shared the same habitat and ...

A 1.5-million-year-old lakebed from Kenya shows two ancient human relatives cohabitating an environment, shaking up our ...

Researchers believe that the extinct human species lived in small groups, which might have made them susceptible to ...

Our understanding of human ancestry has changed dramatically since the discovery of Lucy the ancient hominin 50 years ago.