Understanding this crucial point in human history has focused on the Dmanisi Hominid Archaeological Site in Georgia where ...

They drew with crayons, possibly fed on maggots and maybe even kissed us: Forty millenniums later, our ancient human cousins ...

A controversial hominid that lived 7 million years ago may have walked on two legs after all, according to a new analysis of ...

Learn about the overlap between archaic humans that once lived on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi and the modern humans ...

For anthropologists, there has long been a major mystery. Fossils from between 600,000 and 1 million years ago, when human ...

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

Look in the mirror and the feature that quietly sets you apart from every other species is not your eyes or your opposable ...

I’m a big fan of photography. I’ve been doing it for years, and I know my way around a camera. But I can’t even count how many times, mostly when I was younger, a random man—always a man—stopped me ...

An international scientific team has dated with exceptional precision a set of human fossils discovered on the Atlantic coast ...

Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in ...

Fresh findings about arm and leg bones advance the debate over whether Sahelanthropus tchadensis was bipedal, but not ...

The year's top paleontological wonders ranged from a 540-million-year-old penis worm to a decades-old rodent impression.