The names scientists give to humanity’s ancient relatives are more than labels. They encode a story about who counts as close ...

How could a 3.2-million-year-old skeleton belonging to a tiny, ape-like creature change what we know about human evolution? Discovered in Ethiopia in 1974, Lucy became one of the most famous fossils ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Human evolutionary science has long been caught up in a debate: Did our last common ancestor with apes walk on its knuckles, like ...

The skull of an infant ape buried by a volcano 13 million years ago has preserved intriguing clues about the ancestor humans shared with apes — including a likely African origin, scientists said ...

Combining archaeological evidence with ancient DNA and data on past climates shows us how long and winding the story of human ...

Recent advances in our understanding of human evolution challenge the way we currently name and classify our ancestors, ...

Learn how an Early Miocene ape fossil from Egypt is changing theories about ape evolution and the origins of modern apes. In a stretch of desert north of Cairo, a small fragment of jawbone is forcing ...

An 18-million-year-old jawbone discovered in Egypt challenges the long-held view that East Africa was the cradle of our modern ape ancestors. Illustration of Masripithecus moghraensis, the first ape ...

Modern apes may have swung into existence in North Africa or the Middle East. New fossil findings — published March 26 in Science — unveil Masripithecus, a roughly 17-million-year-old early ape that ...

"Hearst Magazines and AOL may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." As humans, it’s important to remember that some of our oldest primate ancestors were apelike creatures.