The oldest fossilised remains of complex animals appear suddenly in the fossil record, and as if from nowhere, in rocks that are 538 million years old.
It's considered one of the most decisive steps in human evolution. Now, scientists believe they have pinpointed when our ...
It's considered one of the most decisive steps in human evolution. Now, scientists believe they have pinpointed when our ...
The classification of one of the most complete human ancestor fossils ever discovered, the skeleton known as Little Foot, has been called into question by an international research team led from La ...
One of the most complete human ancestor fossils ever found may belong to an entirely new species, according to an ...
A landmark study of an ancient thigh bone confirms when our earliest ancestors stood upright. This discovery proves that the ...
A seven-million-year-old fossil may rewrite human origins, showing our ancestors were walking upright far earlier than anyone expected.
New study of 7-million-year-old fossils from Chad proves Sahelanthropus tchadensis walked upright while still climbing trees.
This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...
Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to ...
Revolutionary fossil evidence from Ethiopia is challenging decades of scientific consensus about human origins. New discoveries suggest that the famous Lucy fossil, long considered a direct ancestor ...