New burial dating techniques applied to South African cave sediments reveal that Australopithecus fossils are far older than ...

The legendary “Little Foot” fossil may be an entirely new human ancestor. An international team of scientists led by ...

For years, scientists believed that Homo erectus was the first human species to venture out of Africa around 1.8 million ...

A seven-million-year-old fossil may mark the moment our ancestors first stood up and walked.

Could Homo sapiens and an archaic and now-extinct species of early human have lived alongside each other on the Indonesian ...