A trio of jawbones, a leg bone, and a handful of vertebrae and teeth found in Morocco may represent one of the last common ...

A 26-ft (8-m) deep excavation in Indonesia has revealed that humans and a hominin species that pre-dates humans used the same ...

The legendary “Little Foot” fossil may be an entirely new human ancestor. An international team of scientists led by ...

A team of researchers at University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences has proposed the introduction of a new human ...

Biologists are quietly rewriting what it means to be alive, and the human body has become one of their strangest frontiers.

A new analysis of enigmatic skulls from the Republic of Georgia suggest that Homo erectus wasn't the only human species to ...

One of the most complete human ancestor fossils ever found may belong to an entirely new species, according to an ...

Modern human beings are the ultimate apex species, exerting dominance over our environment in a way that no other animal ever ...

Bonobo evolution reveals bonding and group cohesion in response to threats, favoring paths to finding peace instead of ...