When researchers digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.6-million-year to 1.5-million-year-old hominin from Ethiopia, the result wasn't the familiar look of early Homo erectus. Instead, the fossil ...

A fossil ape discovered in northern Egypt is reshaping the story of human evolution. The species, Masripithecus, lived about 17 to 18 million years ago and may sit very close to the ancestor of all ...

For decades, textbooks painted a dramatic picture of early humans as tool-using hunters who rose quickly to the top of the food chain. The tale was that Homo habilis, one of the earliest ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alysson Muotri, Ph.D. Lead exposure shaped human evolution, influencing brain development and the rise of language. (CREDIT: Kyle ...

Scientists rebuilt the face of “Little Foot,” a 3.67-million-year-old fossil, uncovering new clues about early human evolution across Africa.

How did humans become human? Understanding when, where and in what environmental conditions our early ancestors lived is central to solving the puzzle of human evolution. Unfortunately, pinning down a ...

“For over a hundred years, it was hypothesized that our ancestors lived in grassland savannahs and that this major ecosystem change drove human evolution, including the origins of bipedalism and ...

Genetic tweaks changed how the hip bones of early humans developed, which allowed them to start walking upright on two legs, according to new research. Photo by Adobe Stock/HealthDay News Two small ...

Saini Samim receives funding from the Melbourne Research Schorship provided by the University of Melbourne. She has also received funding from the Australian Research Council and the Turkana Basin ...

UNLV Anthropology Professor Brian Villmoare and a team of scientists discovered fossilized teeth. UNLV Anthropology Professor Brian Villmoare and a team of international scientists discovered ...

Long before humans became master hunters, our ancestors were already thriving by making the most of what nature left behind. New research suggests that scavenging animal carcasses wasn’t a desperate ...

In 2009, Yohannes Haile-Selassie and his team were combing the desert landscape of Burtele, a paleontological site in the Afar Region of Ethiopia, when Stephanie Melillo found something remarkable: an ...