Walking on two legs has long been considered a milestone in human evolution and one of our most defining characteristics.

Could a Moroccan cave hold a crucial piece of the puzzle of human origins? Hominin fossils dating back 773,000 years discovered in the country are bringing new evidence to the debate about the last ...

Comparisons show the face size falls between a gorilla and an orangutan, with shape closer to orangutans and bonobos, and a ...

Little Foot, a 3.67 million-year-old human ancestor, is getting a digital facial reconstruction after her skull was crushed in a cave.

A new digital reconstruction of the face of an early Australopithecus specimen helps add details about the origins of our own ...

A single femur found in Bulgaria appears to represent an ape or early hominin that walked on two legs before any known African hominin, but the evidence is far from conclusive ...

Stone tools found in Israel are at least 1.9 million years old, showing humans left Africa earlier than scientists once believed.

A new digital reconstruction of Little Foot’ face, one of our oldest human ancestors, is giving scientists a fresh look at ...

Fossils from Jebel Irhoud in Morocco, dated to 315,000 years ago, represent the oldest known Homo sapiens remains. Found alongside Middle Stone Age tools and evidence of fire use, they challenge ...

The evidence shows that the ‘Ubeidiya site is at least one million nine hundred thousand years old. This finding represents a ...

According to a statement released by the University of Tübingen, an international team of researchers who evaluated a fossil femur unearthed at the site of Azmaka in southern Bulgaria suggests that it ...