An international research team has announced the most complete fossil yet of Homo habilis (aka 'the handy man') – one of the ...

A rare Homo habilis skeleton from Kenya reveals how early humans moved, climbed, and adapted more than two million years ago.

At a shocking 20 centimeters (8 inches) long and 5 centimeters (2 inches) wide, this coprolite is the largest intact piece of ...

A seven-million-year-old fossil may mark the moment our ancestors first stood up and walked.

The legendary “Little Foot” fossil may be an entirely new human ancestor. An international team of scientists led by researchers from La Trobe University in Australia and the University of Cambridge ...

But this latest discovery seems to challenge that. It appears that Paranthropus had greater dietary flexibility than first interpreted, could adapt to a wide range of environmental conditions and was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A trio of jawbones, a leg bone, and a handful of vertebrae and teeth found in Morocco may represent one of the last common ...

In a paper published in Nature, a team led by University of Chicago paleoanthropologist Professor Zeresenay Alemseged reports ...

For a long time, scientists have puzzled over the origins of the human species. It is unclear from which common ancestor modern humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans all descend. According to earlier ...

Scientists say they have solved the mystery of the Burtele foot, a set of 3.4 million-year-old bones found in Ethiopia in 2009. The fossils, along with others unearthed more recently, have now been ...

A recently discovered fossil dating back 2.6 million years could fundamentally change our understanding of human evolution ...