A 7.2-million-year-old femur found in Bulgaria reveals early signs of upright walking and reopens the debate on human origins ...

Two fossil skulls found in central China are prompting fresh debate over when they lived – and where they belong in the human ...

Homo juluensis was identified as a possible new human species that lived in eastern Asia about 300,000 years ago and vanished around 50,000 years ago.

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 ...

The Great Rift Valley in northern Kenya is one of the world’s most important scientific landscapes. On the shores of Lake Turkana – the world’s largest permanent desert lake – the region preserves an ...

Fossils unearthed in Morocco from a little-understood period of human evolution may help scientists resolve a long-standing mystery: Who came before us? Three jawbones, including one from a child, ...

One eye-catching detail is the researchers’ estimate that the bone likely belonged to a small female, about 24 kg, and nicknamed “Diva.” Spassov noted the fossil seems to sit somewhere between older, ...

The oldest distinguishing feature between humans and our ape cousins is our ability to walk on two legs—a trait known as bipedalism. Among mammals, only humans and our ancestors perform this atypical ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 'Find the fossil sites' interactive display, Maropeng exhibition, Cradle of Humankind. flowcomm, CC BY South Africa has one of the ...

One of three jawbones excavated from Thomas Quarry in Morocco that is 773,000 years old. - Hamza Mehimdate/Programme Préhistoire de Casablanca Fossils unearthed in Morocco from a little-understood ...