This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to ...

A fossil belonging to an ancient hominin that lived seven million years ago bears the hallmarks of bipedalism, according to a ...

IF YOU'VE ever watched your cat stare intensely out the window at a bird, making that peculiar "ek-ek-ek" chattering sound ...

Learn how detailed 3D analysis uncovered evidence that upright walking emerged near the very start of the human lineage.

Using 3D technology and other methods, the team identified Sahelanthropus’s femoral tubercle, which is the point of ...

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

A 1.5-million-year-old skull fossil from Gona, Ethiopia now has a virtual face, thanks to digital reconstruction.