While there is a common belief that the evolution of humans can be traced back to fishlike vertebrate ancestors, pinpointing the origins of bony fish — a key group in this evolution — remains ...

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

Learn how advanced scanning and 3D reconstruction revealed the face of the Little Foot fossil and new insights into Australopithecus and early human evolution in Africa.

A recent study reveals we have a long-lost relative which hung out with our more famous apelike ancestors about three million years ago. It turns out the human family tree is more complicated than we ...

For fifteen years, scientists possessed only ghostly DNA evidence of the Denisovans—an ancient human lineage known solely through genetic traces recovered from a Siberian cave. Now, anthropologists ...

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 ...

Homo juluensis was identified as a possible new human species that lived in eastern Asia about 300,000 years ago and vanished ...

Chinese paleontologists have discovered the world's oldest complete bony fish fossils, dating back 436 million years ...

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

Authorities are investigating the discovery of a skull and other human remains found along a remote dirt road in the Mojave Desert this week, officials confirmed. The remains were discovered around ...

The predator, nicknamed Raptorex, lived about 60 million years before the T. rex and was slightly larger than the human male, scientists said. The findings, to be released Friday ...

The 90-million-year-old fossil of a tiny bird-like dinosaur has rewritten history, say scientists. They described the ...