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

A new protein analysis of Homo naledi skeletons reveals a curious twist—none of them seem to have Y chromosomes.

She is a megastar in the history of humankind. She is affectionately called Lucy, which likely rings a bell with many people.

Analysis - There is a special gallery inside the Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi where visitors slow down, lower their voices and often fall silent. In front of them, carefully lit and disarmingly ...

Homo Naledi, the small-brained ancient human relative discovered deep inside a South African cave system in 2013, has never ...

Was Lucy not our direct ancestor after all? Newly discovered fossils in Ethiopia confirm the assumption that there were other early humans in addition to her species.

Learn how fossils show human ancestors did not grow bigger in a straight line, but split into larger and smaller evolutionary ...

A nearly complete skeleton from South Africa’s Sterkfontein Caves, known as Little Foot, may represent a distinct branch of ...

Researchers have newly identified a huge apex predator that terrorised early humans and laid in wait for its prey ...

In the dry storytelling of palaeontology, certain discoveries tend to arrive with a kind of quiet disruption. Not the sort ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

"Little Foot" isn't just a beloved character from "The Land Before Time," it's also the name given to the fossil of a human ancestor found in a South African cave in 1994. Although critical features, ...