Scientists have discovered an ancient relative of all living apes in northern Egypt, highlighting how the hunt for human ...

The droppings contain DNA, he thought, and perhaps, even after rain washes them away, some DNA might remain. And if it does ...

A recent study reveals we have a long-lost relative which hung out with our more famous apelike ancestors about three million years ago. It turns out the human family tree is more complicated than we ...

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 ...

Early humans named Homo erectus reached East Asia 600,000 years earlier than thought, reshaping the timeline of hominin ...

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 ...

Looking back at human history, there emerges a scene where beings that once walked on four legs suddenly rose up and stood on two feet. Scholars evaluate this change as a decisive turning point that ...

Footage shows how researchers discovers fossil human footprints embedded in an ancient lakebed that show humans inhabited ...