“Hundreds of fossils representing over a dozen species of Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, and Homo had been found in the Afar ...

The idea of life on Earth without humans may seem like science fiction, but it has become the subject of serious scientific ...

But this latest discovery seems to challenge that. It appears that Paranthropus had greater dietary flexibility than first interpreted, could adapt to a wide range of environmental conditions and was ...

“Our results push back the association of T. pallidum with humans by thousands of years, possibly more than 10,000 years ago ...

A rare Homo habilis skeleton from Kenya reveals how early humans moved, climbed, and adapted more than two million years ago.

A palm-sized fragment of elephant bone, shaped and used as a precision tool almost half a million years ago, has been identified as the oldest known elephant-bone implement in Europe. Although the ...

Fossilized bones and teeth dating back approximately 773,000 years are reshaping scientists’ understanding of human evolution ...

A 5500-year-old genome recovered from human skeletal remains in Colombia may give insights into the early evolution of ...

An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was ...

Ethiopia’s Afar region has stood out in the study of human evolution for its vast array of hominin fossils, from some of the earliest known Homo sapiens dating to 160,000 years, to hominins dating as ...

A hand stencil on the wall of a cave in Indonesia has become the oldest known rock art in the world, exceeding the ...