One of the most complete human ancestor fossils ever found may belong to an entirely new species, according to an ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

Scientists uncover fossils suggesting Sahelanthropus tchadensis, a 7-million-year-old ancestor, could walk upright. Could this tiny bipedal ape-like hominin rewrite what we know about the earliest ...

Scientists may have cracked the case of whether a seven-million-year-old fossil could walk upright. A new study found strong ...

For decades, the story seemed settled: one early human species left Africa and spread across the world. But a new study ...

The classification of one of the most complete human ancestor fossils ever discovered, the skeleton known as Little Foot, has been called into question by an international research team led from La ...

The oldest fossilized remains of complex animals appear suddenly in the fossil record, and as if from nowhere, in rocks that ...

New study of 7-million-year-old fossils from Chad proves Sahelanthropus tchadensis walked upright while still climbing trees.

A landmark study of an ancient thigh bone confirms when our earliest ancestors stood upright. This discovery proves that the ...

An international research team led by scientists from La Trobe University in Australia and the University of Cambridge is questioning how one of the ...

Then there is the fungus, Beauveria bassiana. This fungus is neither the tree’s nor the beetle’s friend; as a pathogenic ...

A study reveals Kaziranga's swamp soil evolution, highlighting vegetation changes and rhino migration over 3,000 years.