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

A 3.4M-year-old set of foot bones from Ethiopia is forcing paleoanthropologists to redraw one of the most familiar diagrams ...

A fossil jaw found in Ethiopia shows Paranthropus ranged far north, challenging long-held ideas about early human relatives ...

A single ancient jawbone is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about humanity’s forgotten relatives.

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...

Journey across tens of thousands of years in Deep Time Journeys: A Cross-Continental Look at Early Human Archaeology, a webinar that uncovers the sweeping story of our earliest ancestors. Led by ...

At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

Every step you take depends on a structure most people rarely think about. The pelvis sits at the center of the body and ...

But this latest discovery seems to challenge that. It appears that Paranthropus had greater dietary flexibility than first interpreted, could adapt to a wide range of environmental conditions and was ...

A newly excavated archaeological site in central China is reshaping long-held assumptions about early hominin behavior in ...

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