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 ...

The traditional labels Homo, Australopithecus and Paranthropus may no longer match the tangled relationships revealed by the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artificial island of sand dredged from Indonesia's seafloor has accidentally revealed evidence of a long-lost sunken world, ...

Experts have been puzzled by recently discovered fossils from the hand of an extinct human relative, Paranthropus boisei. They have been surprised by a mix of human-like and gorilla-like traits in the ...

Fossils recovered from a cave in Casablanca, Morocco, may sit near the very root of the human family tree, according to researchers who date the remains to about 773,000 years ago. The bones, ...

A 1.8 million-year-old human jawbone has been unearthed in the hills of Georgia — and scientists say the fossil could offer major clues into some of the earliest prehistoric human settlements in ...

An overview of the excavated track surface with a mix of deeper hippopotamus and antelope footprints and shallower hominin ...

A set of ancient human fossils found on Morocco's Atlantic coast now sits on one of the tightest timelines in African prehistory. The remains come from Thomas Quarry I, and a new analysis pins them to ...

The human family tree may be due for a major rewrite. Researchers argue that Australopithecus and Paranthropus should be ...

South Africa has one of the world's richest fossil records of hominins (humans and their fossil ancestors). But many misconceptions still exist regarding human evolution, and school textbooks contain ...

A groundbreaking study of 7,000-year-old exposed coral reef fossils reveals how human fishing has transformed Caribbean reef food webs: As sharks declined by 75 percent and fish preferred by humans ...