Walking on two legs has long been considered a milestone in human evolution and one of our most defining characteristics. Until now, researchers assumed that the first humans originated in Africa and ...

Modern genomes preserve traces of ancient relatives that mixed with human ancestors in Africa and Eurasia.

Scientists uncovered DNA from two mysterious human ancestors hidden in modern genomes, revealing new clues about our ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Sterkfontein caves have yielded many hominin fossil discoveries. - Emmanuel Croset/AFP/Getty Images Scientists can now come ...

In a paper published in Nature, a team led by University of Chicago paleoanthropologist Professor Zeresenay Alemseged reports the discovery of the first Paranthropus specimen from the Afar region of ...

Walking upright all the time is one of the unique features that sets Homo sapiens apart from other primates still around today. But, before we stood up and started strolling, how did our ancestors ...

Over two dozen new human ancestor fossils unearthed at a Spanish cave site suggest these first Europeans may have engaged in cannibalism 850,000 years ago. More than 30 years after the discovery of ...

Learn how video footage of monkeys in West Africa has unlocked new answers in the debate over the last common ancestor of chimpanzees and humans. Before humans and chimpanzees split off into separate ...

Researchers observed and confirmed with measurements that wild sooty mangabey monkeys in an Ivory Coast forest display foot bone flexibility that facilitates vertical climbing up skinny tree trunks to ...

Little Foot, a 3.67 million-year-old human ancestor, is getting a digital facial reconstruction after her skull was crushed ...