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

Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to ...

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

Revolutionary fossil evidence from Ethiopia is challenging decades of scientific consensus about human origins. New discoveries suggest that the famous Lucy fossil, long considered a direct ancestor ...

One of the biggest unanswered questions in human evolution is when our ancestors first stood upright and began walking on two ...

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

A foot fossil found in Ethiopia belonged to an ancient human. The finding could knock one of the most famous names in human evolution from her spot on the family tree.

The male species is remarkably more colourful than the female in most species, as has been an endless source of wonder for ...

A newly published scientific study is reigniting debate over human evolution in Africa after researchers suggested that the ...