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

Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a ...

A modern analysis of 7-million-year-old remains suggest this mysterious ancient primate is the oldest human ancestor ever found.

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

Scientists may have cracked the case of whether a seven-million-year-old fossil could walk upright. A new study found strong ...

The oldest ancestor of humans may be a seven-million-year-old ape, which started walking upright two million years earlier than other hominids.

Human history features a pivotal moment when four-legged beings stood upright on two legs. Scholars regard this shift as the ...

The 3.18-million-year-old bone fragments of human ancestor Lucy, which rarely leave Ethiopia, went on display in Prague on Monday, with the Czech prime minister hailing the fossils' "first ever" ...

Revolutionary fossil evidence from Ethiopia is challenging decades of scientific consensus about human origins. New discoveries suggest that the famous Lucy fossil, long considered a direct ancestor ...