This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

A fossilized human footprint found in southern Chile has been dated to 15,600 years ago, making it the oldest known footprint ...

Learn how detailed 3D analysis uncovered evidence that upright walking emerged near the very start of the human lineage.

Virtual reassembly of teeth and fossil bone fragments reveals a beautifully preserved face of a 1.5-million-year-old human ancestor—the first complete Early Pleistocene hominin cranium from the Horn ...

In Morocco’s Jebel Irhoud cave, scientists discovered fossils dating back 315,000 years—100,000 years older than any previous Homo sapiens remains. Found with stone tools and butchered animal bones, ...

A team of international scientists, led by Dr. Karen Baab, a paleoanthropologist at the College of Graduate Studies, Glendale Campus of Midwestern University in Arizona, produced a virtual ...