A 1.78-million-year-old partial elephant skeleton found in Tanzania associated with stone tools may represent the oldest ...

New study of 7-million-year-old fossils from Chad proves Sahelanthropus tchadensis walked upright while still climbing trees.

A seven-million-year-old skull found in Chad sits at the center of a long argument about human origins. The species, ...

One of the most complete human ancestor fossils ever found may belong to an entirely new species, according to an ...

Scientists may have cracked the case of whether a seven-million-year-old fossil could walk upright. A new study found strong ...

Learn how detailed 3D analysis uncovered evidence that upright walking emerged near the very start of the human lineage.

Early human ancestors called the LRJ Group lived in Europe for 80 generations, intermingling with Neanderthals, before ...

In the last decade, archaeologists have learned to read the genetic traces that ancient humans and Neanderthals left not only ...

Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels over and draws its last breath. The carcass is soon set on by hyenas, who ...

This combination of 2007, 2018 and 2012 photos shows, from left, the Cederberg mountain range in South Africa, the Tenere desert in Niger and savanna in South Africa. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam, ...

A crushed ancient skull may hold clues to the origins of ancient humans. Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human relative could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, ...

Learn how ancient DNA from human remains provided the first direct evidence that a common childhood virus has been part of ...