After decades of excavation and debate, a new analysis argues that Little Foot — one of the most complete hominin fossils ...

Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an ...

Australopithecus is an extinct group of ape-like modern human relatives—or potentially ancestors—that walked upright and ...

Many known hominin fossils defy species classification, with the most famous example being the ever-enigmatic Denisovans. A study by anthropologists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the ...

Australian-led study suggests iconic South African skeleton differs from known Australopithecus species, media reports - ...

Specimen found in South Africa was widely thought to be member of ape-like human ancestor family that lived nearly 2 million ...

Human beings have been at the center of ecological change on Earth for thousands of years. But as history shows, no species ...

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

A study by University of Liverpool researchers reveals that the species hardest to detect—those rarely seen, recorded, or ...