A stunning discovery of fossilized footprints pressed into soft mud preserved the unexpected and extraordinary moment, ...

Ancient footprints discovered in Kenya belong to two different species of human relatives who walked on the same ground at ...

An international study shows how chemical fingerprints left by "underappreciated" aquatic organisms could help scientists ...

Recent research challenges the theory that long childhood in humans is due to large brain sizes. Instead, analysis of early ...

More than a million years ago, on a hot savannah teeming with wildlife near the shore of what would someday become Lake ...

Lucy may be the best-known prehuman fossil in the world. But other famous fossils have given us important insight into our ...

A set of fossilised teeth from a young hominid, dated to approximately 1.77 million years ago, has sparked significant ...

In pursuit of knowledge, the evolution of humanity ranks with the origins of life and the universe. And yet, except when an ...

Our understanding of human ancestry has changed dramatically since the discovery of Lucy the ancient hominin 50 years ago.