The legendary “Little Foot” fossil may be an entirely new human ancestor. An international team of scientists led by ...

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

Scientists working in Ethiopia's Afar Region have made discoveries that rewrite our understanding of early human history. For ...

New burial dating techniques applied to South African cave sediments reveal that Australopithecus fossils are far older than ...

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

An international research team has unveiled a significant discovery in human paleontology: an exceptionally well-preserved ...

Modern humans are the latest in a long line of creatures belonging to the Homo genus, although until now we knew relatively ...