An international study led by researchers from Australia's La Trobe University and the University of Cambridge has challenged ...

Homo habilis has long been considered the earliest member of the human genus, known for its association with early stone ...

When paleoanthropologists finally freed the skeleton called Little Foot from its stone prison in South Africa, they believed ...

Australopithecus is an extinct group of ape-like modern human relatives—or potentially ancestors—that walked upright and ...

Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an ...

Many known hominin fossils defy species classification, with the most famous example being the ever-enigmatic Denisovans. A study by anthropologists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the ...

Australian-led study suggests iconic South African skeleton differs from known Australopithecus species, media reports - ...

Specimen found in South Africa was widely thought to be member of ape-like human ancestor family that lived nearly 2 million ...

A 3.4-million-year-old fossil foot reveals that two early hominin species lived together - A. deyiremeda and A. afarensis.

Human beings have been at the center of ecological change on Earth for thousands of years. But as history shows, no species ...

Humans are very good at wiping out wildlife. From dodos, to golden toads, to Tasmanian tigers, many species have succumbed to our unique blend of destruction. But just how many animal species have ...

A study by University of Liverpool researchers reveals that the species hardest to detect—those rarely seen, recorded, or ...