“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 ...

Footprints dating back 800,000 years have been uncovered on a beach in Norfolk, England, offering one of the oldest direct ...

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 ...

A rare fossil discovery in Ethiopia has pushed the known range of Paranthropus hundreds of miles farther north than ever before. The 2.6-million-year-old jaw suggests this ancient relative of humans ...

“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 ...

Treponema pallidum, a microorganism that can cause a deadly sexually transmitted disease in humans, may have a far more ancient lineage than scientists once thought ...

The real revelation, however, came from the men. Men considered a larger penis as an indicator of a rival with both greater ...

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