A new study reveals climate-driven lake swings subtly reshape Lake Turkana’s crust, loosening rock, accelerating faults, and ...

Human evolution is not a straight line but a complex branching tree shared with other great apes. This overview explains the ...

Recent fossil finds could mean that "Lucy" wasn't our direct ancestor, some scientists say. Others strongly disagree.

Australian researchers think the skeleton found in South Africa is not the same species as two found in the same South Africa cave system ...

A newly published scientific study is reigniting debate over human evolution in Africa after researchers suggested that the ...

A foot fossil found in Ethiopia belonged to an ancient human. The finding could knock one of the most famous names in human evolution from her spot on the family tree.

In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...

An international study led by researchers from Australia's La Trobe University and the University of Cambridge has challenged ...

After decades of excavation and debate, a new analysis argues that Little Foot — one of the most complete hominin fossils ...

Australopithecus is an extinct group of ape-like modern human relatives—or potentially ancestors—that walked upright and ...

Australian-led study suggests iconic South African skeleton differs from known Australopithecus species, media reports - ...

Specimen found in South Africa was widely thought to be member of ape-like human ancestor family that lived nearly 2 million ...