What may have looked like a cross between a platypus and a beaverlike rodent and lived around 120 million years ago? Dongoconodon platycauda, a newly discovered fossil mammal from northeastern China.

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

The site where these fossils were found is the most concentrated collection of early human remains ever found, but many ...

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

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

Archaeologists identified hominin fossils in South Africa, including a 2-million-year-old adult Homo erectus fossil.

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 ...

Multiomics profiling identifies molecular and cellular signatures of regular exercise in human peripheral blood See fig. S3 (StW 573) and fig. S4 (Dmanisi) for all humeral sections, fig. S5 (StW 573) ...

One unique characteristic of human beings may have played a role in our ancestors’ ability to traverse greater distances: putting the heel down first. Researchers from Penn State University show that ...

Where did we come from? How did humanity, with our complicated civilizations and all our human quirks and foibles, come to be? Much of what we know about those questions traces back to important ...

Archaeologists excavating a cave in southwestern China have unearthed fossilized remains that belonged to an enigmatic population of extinct hominins, revealing new details about their long-lost way ...