In this 4.4-million-year-old skeleton, scientists may have found the missing step between climbing and walking.

Traditionally, paleoanthropologists believed that Homo habilis, as the earliest big-brained humans, was responsible for the earliest sites with tools. The idea has been that Homo habilis was the ...

Almost 2 million years ago, a young ancient human died beside a spring near a lake in what is now Tanzania, in eastern Africa. After archaeologists ...

For more than a century, scientists have been piecing together the puzzle of human evolution, examining fossil evidence to ...

Learn more about Ardipithecus ramidus and how their ankle bone paints a better picture of how our ancestors transitioned from ...

Indonesia is one of the few countries still building new coal power plants, the most polluting sources of power. Chinese ...

The fossils indicate that P. boisei ’s human-like hand proportions would have allowed it to handle stone tools with dexterity ...

Hand fossils unearthed in Kenya reveal that an extinct human relative called Paranthropus boisei had unexpected dexterity and ...

For decades, small grooves on ancient human teeth were thought to be evidence of deliberate tool use—people cleaning their teeth with sticks or fibers, or easing gum pain with makeshift "toothpicks." ...

The extinct animal's face structure could help explain how vertebrates, including ourselves, evolved our distinctive look.

New dating has revealed that New Mexico's last dinosaurs were healthy, diverse and thriving at the end of the Cretaceous ...

The team looked for an explanation as to why the myth involved a seventh bright star, visible to the naked eye. Running ...