New minuscule fossils of Purgatorius, the earliest-known relative of all primates—including humans—have been unearthed in a ...

When researchers digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.6-million-year to 1.5-million-year-old hominin from Ethiopia, the result wasn't the familiar look of early Homo erectus. Instead, the fossil ...

Imagine uncovering a piece of history that's been buried for millions of years– something that connects us to our distant ancestors and sheds light on where we all began. Fossils are like time ...

They open up the possibility of an evolutionary link with the oldest known Homo sapiens fossils – those from Jebel Irhoud in Morocco, dated to around 315,000 years ago. These discoveries help clarify ...

For decades, Paranthropus boisei, an early hominin that roamed eastern Africa a million years ago, was known for its gigantic jaw and powerfully constructed biting muscles. Its coarse-grass and reed ...

Stone tools found in Israel are at least 1.9 million years old, showing humans left Africa earlier than scientists once believed.

A study confirms that Homo erectus, the direct ancestor of modern humans, arrived hundreds of thousands of years earlier than previous studies indicated, rewriting our understanding of early human ...

Researchers have uncovered fossils belonging to a previously unknown ancient human relative. And they may have lived in the same time and place as the earliest-known members of the genus Homo, from ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American On April 12 at the annual meeting of the ...

New research dates Homo erectus skulls in China to nearly 1.8 million years ago, making them the oldest hominin fossils in East Asia.

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American A complete thighbone would be an especially ...