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

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

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

Variants in genes involved in the production of extracellular matrix molecules could have enabled the skeletal adaptations that distinguish humans from other great apes.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Field photos of the Khugenetsavkhlant badlands in the Eastern Gobi Desert of Mongolia, which is where Tamirkhan balcarceli was ...

A small fossil from the windswept Gobi Desert is forcing scientists to rethink a long chapter in the story of mammal evolution. For decades, researchers believed a group of ancient mammals called ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.