Ancient footprints frozen in time have revealed new secrets about human evolution and provided the first evidence of two ...

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

Two species of ancient human relatives crossed paths 1.5 million years ago. Fossilized footprints in Kenya captured the ...

Woolly mammoths, giant sloths and saber-toothed cats were a fact of life for early humans. New clues in Earth’s northernmost ...

The picture of human evolution has changed repeatedly and dramatically over the past half century, shaped by waves of new ...

Lucy has and continues to play a fundamental role in our understanding of our ancient ancestors and how we evolved.

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

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.

In this article, you'll learn about the standard man dental formula, how it differs from children and other animals, and why ...