Scientists examining traces left behind by early humans continue to find evidence that refuses to stay neatly in place. New ...

In the technical description, the authors emphasize that the skeleton includes clavicle and shoulder-blade fragments, both upper arms, both forearms, plus part of the sacrum and hip bones - rare ...

Learn about the most complete Homo habilis fossil ever found, and how this fossil is changing what we know about human ...

A seven-million-year-old skull found in Chad sits at the center of a long argument about human origins. The species, ...

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

New study of 7-million-year-old fossils from Chad proves Sahelanthropus tchadensis walked upright while still climbing trees.

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human relative could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, researchers said. A cranium dubbed Yunxian 2 was found in the Yunxian region of ...

A newly published study has found that males of some of our earliest known ancestors were significantly larger than females. The pronounced difference in body size present in both Australopithecus ...