Little Foot’s face looks like it has been through a slow-motion car crash, because it has. For millions of years, rock ...

Homo erectus skulls from China’s Yunxian archaeological site revealed ages close to two million years—a million years older ...

The fossilised bones of our ancestors remain silent. So, how can we possibly imagine what our earliest languages sounded like ...

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

Tiny fossil teeth from Colorado are revealing new clues about the very first relatives of primates, including humans.

Scientists discovered some of the oldest bony fish fossils in China. The fossils explain the early history of animals with backbones.

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

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 ...

Little Foot” is the most complete Australopithecus fossil ever found. And now we finally have an idea of what this group of ...

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

Scientists used a particle accelerator to reconstruct the 3.7-million-year-old face of Little Foot, one of the most complete ...

Most people alive today carry fragments of Neanderthal DNA in their genome. Now scientists are gaining a more intimate ...