The record of humanity is incomplete, but researchers discovered a well-preserved skull which calls into question assumptions ...

Wild monkeys in West Africa can climb vertical tree trunks using foot flexibility scientists did not realize they possessed.

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

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 ...

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 ...