There was a moment in human history when our entire existence may have desperately clung to a thousand or more people.

Scientists say they have solved the mystery of the Burtele foot, a set of 3.4 million-year-old bones found in Ethiopia in 2009. The fossils, along with others unearthed more recently, have now been ...

New 3D analysis of a German skull clears up decades of confusion, placing this human firmly in the modern family tree.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A handful of fossils (including this mandible) found in a cave in Casablanca, Morocco, belong to a previously unknown ancient ...

Fresh fossil evidence from Ethiopia shows early Homo lived alongside a newly identified Australopithecus species nearly 2.8 million years ago. This finding challenges the traditional idea of a single, ...

New fossil discoveries in China are rewriting the human story, revealing that Homo longi and early Homo sapiens may have diverged far earlier than believed. High-resolution scans of million-year-old ...