Lucy lived in a wide range of habitats from northern Ethiopia to northern Kenya. Researchers now believe she wasn't the only ...

Billy Bones and the Snot Zombies Learn facts about different human bones, escape the snot zombies and help the doctors put Billy Bones back together in this interactive Science game for KS2 students.

From the present, human perspective, it’s not hard to understand the value of fingernails: We might use our upper nails to ...

The 3.2-million-year-old fossil, discovered 50 years ago, is considered to be one of the most significant early hominin ...

In the new study, Zollikofer and his team examined several teeth that were uncovered over 20 years ago in the Caucasus ...

Roughly 1.77-million-year-old teeth show that slow development in hominids may have had an earlier start than previously thought, according to a new study ...

An ambitious project launched in 2016 has made a dent in one of biology’s greatest challenges — with more than 3,600 ...

research published in the journal Nature found that our Y chromosome has lost only one gene since humans and rhesus monkeys ...

A collection of 3-million-year-old bones unearthed 50 years ago in Ethiopia changed our understanding of human origins ... displayed next to Grace Latimer, 4, to illustrate Lucy's small stature ...

Humans may have developed advanced social behaviours and trade 100,000 years earlier than previously thought. This is according to a series of papers published today in Science. The results come ...

A geology professor from the University of South Florida discovered a 5600-year-old stone bridge in an ancient cave that ...

Both were found in Africa. Ardi is a female human-like fossilised skeleton that dates from 4.4 million years ago. Ardi's bones show that she was probably able to walk upright but she had very long ...