Fresh fossil evidence from Ethiopia shows early Homo lived alongside a newly identified Australopithecus species nearly 2.8 million years ago. This finding challenges the traditional idea of a single, ...

Bipedalism, or walking on two legs, is one of the key features that distinguishes humans from other apes. But when and why ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologists uncovered teeth from an ancient human ancestor in Ethiopia's Afar Region. - Amy Rector/Virginia Commonwealth ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New Monash University research argues our Paranthropus (pictured) and Australopithecus ancestors who lived up to 5 million years ...

New research on the limb bones of the famous Little Foot skeleton from the Wits Sterkfontein Caves suggests that a major ...

Ethiopian researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery that fundamentally challenges our understanding of human evolution by uncovering fossil evidence of a previously unknown species that ...

Jan 16 (Reuters) - The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances such as increased brain size. But scientists have ...

Researchers have uncovered fossils belonging to a previously unknown ancient human relative. And they may have lived in the same time and place as the earliest-known members of the genus Homo, from ...

One hundred years ago, the discovery of a skull in South Africa's North West province altered our understanding of human evolution. The juvenile skull was dubbed the Taung Child by Raymond Dart, an ...

Donald Johanson really had no business going bone hunting that Sunday. There were letters to write and fossils to catalog—heaps of paperwork left undone while fellow paleoanthropologists were visiting ...

・The traditional labels Homo, Australopithecus and Paranthropus may no longer match the tangled relationships revealed by the human fossil record. ・A Monash University researcher proposes placing ...

Human evolution may need a new name for much of its family tree. Fossils once separated into Homo, Australopithecus and Paranthropus increasingly resist those neat divisions, raising a basic question ...