It's likely you've already chewed and swallowed some tasty morsel today. But when did that ability emerge? New evidence ...

A 2-million-year-old skull fragment from Drimolen adds an adult to the earliest Homo erectus record, when another hominin outnumbered it 10 to 1.

It has now been identified as the oldest adult Homo erectus specimen found in Africa. Catalogued as DNH 127, the fragment ...

The earliest animals may have evolved hundreds of millions of years before their first unmistakable fossils appear in the ...

A fossil from a previously undiscovered species with feathery limbs, unearthed in China, adds to evidence that dinosaurs and ...

A boy's 2008 find in South Africa led to Australopithecus sediba, an ancient human relative about 2 million years old.

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A 2-million-year-old skull fragment from South Africa may be an adult Homo erectus, predating previously discovered fossils ...

In the 1960s, a miner working at a mineral extraction site in Jebel Irhoud, Morocco, struck something far more valuable than ...

On the right is a depiction of an early Homo human ancestor characterized by relatively greater bone strength of the femur in the thigh compared to the humerus in the arm. To the left is a depiction ...

Scientists studying ancient Australian rocks uncovered more than 12,000 fossils from some of the oldest known eukaryotes on Earth. These early complex cells lived in settings ranging from coastal ...

(via NewScientist) New fossils suggest our species reached parts of Eurasia far earlier than the major migration dated to around 60,000 years ago. So who were these early pioneers and why did their ...