Neanderthals still shared the Earth with our ancestors. Recent discoveries are challenging our linear view of human evolution ...

A new study takes another look at some of the oldest known stone tools and suggests their makers transported materials for up ...

From Ethiopia comes an incredible discovery—early humans seem to have potentially lived alongside the very apes they evolved ...

A new dating of the minerals that surrounded and grew over the mysterious Petralona skull places its age at 277,000 years at least – and suggesting it is a member of a primitive, extinct hominid that ...

The hominid's remains are presented alongside Selam, the fossil of a baby Australopithecus who lived about 100,000 years ...

Scientists have uncovered the world s earliest fossil showing both Neanderthal and Homo sapiens features: a five-year-old ...

Some scientists believe humans became bipedal to adapt to climate change, but our closest primate ancestors complicate that ...

A team of researchers led by ASU found strange fossils in Ethiopia. They believe they've discovered a new species related to humans.

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This object is part of the Education ...

An international study led by researchers from Tel Aviv University and the French National Center for Scientific Research ...

A new species of hominid in China: Homo juluensis In the late 1970s, fossils belonging to 16 individuals were found in two different locations in China. They appeared to belong to a unique species.

The human ancestor fossil known as Lucy has left Ethiopia for display in a European museum. Lucy’s skeleton, which is 40% ...