On 15 August, a plane arrived in Prague carrying fossils of human ancestors over three million years old. This remarkable collection includes the fossils of Lucy, a female Australopithecus afarensis, ...

Neanderthals still shared the Earth with our ancestors. Recent discoveries are challenging our linear view of human evolution ...

New Ethiopian fossils show early Homo and Australopithecus lived together, revealing a complex human evolution story.

Fossilized teeth show that two different kinds of ancient human ancestors coexisted more than 2 million years ago. One of ...

Modern humans emerged roughly 300,000 years ago, but our genus Homo is much older. So what's the oldest human species on ...

The human ancestor fossil known as Lucy has left Ethiopia for display in a European museum. Lucy’s skeleton, which is 40% ...

A team of researchers led by ASU found strange fossils in Ethiopia. They believe they've discovered a new species related to ...

A newly published study has found that males of some of our earliest known ancestors were significantly larger than females. The pronounced difference in body size present in both Australopithecus ...

A groundbreaking study has mapped the full neural circuit that carries cool temperature signals from the skin to the brain.

Australopithecus afarensis (the iconic “Lucy”) is portrayed thoughtfully gazing up at the sky, while Australopithecus africanus is presented smiling, perhaps at a friend’s wry remark.

This resource explores human evolution, focusing on five key concepts: Mammals, Primates, Hominoids and Hominins Trends in Human Evolution Genera Australopithecus and Homo Homo sapiens, Neanderthals ...

Although large, elongated protrusions on a 247-million-year-old reptile fossil have some similarities to feathers, they are not feathers.