In this 4.4-million-year-old skeleton, scientists may have found the missing step between climbing and walking.

New imaging has upended a decades-old assumption about Japan’s earliest “humans.” The finding doesn’t erase the past—it ...

A groundbreaking discovery in Israel has unveiled a 140,000-year-old fossil that reshapes our understanding of early human history. Excavations at the Skhul Cave in northern Israel revealed the ...

Fossil teeth unearthed in Ethiopia suggest two distinct human ancestor species lived alongside each other between 2.6 and 2.8 million years ago, reshaping what is known about our evolution. The 13 ...

A groundbreaking study published in October 2025 has proposed a new perspective on the early inhabitants of Australia, ...

The fossils indicate that P. boisei ’s human-like hand proportions would have allowed it to handle stone tools with dexterity ...

More than a million years ago, early human relatives crossed an enormous sea to reach the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The ...

The extinct animal's face structure could help explain how vertebrates, including ourselves, evolved our distinctive look.

The Cairo Fossil Forest is the second oldest in the world. These forests mark a turning point in Earth's history because they ...