A rare Homo habilis skeleton from Kenya reveals how early humans moved, climbed, and adapted more than two million years ago.

Little Foot is a nearly complete ancient skeleton found in the Sterkfontein caves in South Africa that could change how ...

An international research team reports an unusually well-preserved Homo habilis skeleton that dates to just over 2 million ...

Cops say identifying the person could take a while due to the body's condition. A man made a grisly discovery over the weekend when he discovered a human skeleton while looking for shed deer antlers.

Fifty years ago, a remarkable fossil was unearthed in the Afar Rift Valley of Ethiopia, forever transforming our understanding of human evolution. Uncovered by a young paleoanthropologist, Donald ...

Since 2021, a photograph that claimed to show a "crab-like" human skeleton recovered from the "Le Lanchon experiments on human evolution" has circled some corners of the internet, prompting both ...

A prehistoric human skeleton was discovered in an underwater cave in Mexico that was flooded at the end of the last Ice Age, an archaeologist said Tuesday. Octavio Del Rio, a cave-diving archaeologist ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The pre-human fossil "Lucy" from Ethiopia is on display in Europe for the first time. The exhibition at the National Museum in ...

Human evolution is often told as a tidy story of adaptation, yet some of our most familiar body parts still defy straightforward explanation. From the jut of the human chin to the curve of the outer ...

BERKELEY, Calif. - Human remains were discovered at UC Berkeley's Clark Kerr Campus Tuesday, school officials reported. School officials notified students what appeared to be a human skeleton was ...