I’ll reveal our new champion in a moment, but first, a little background. The Bulwer-Lytton contests challenge participants ...

Researchers at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) have led a study, recently published in the Journal of Human Evolution, on the diet of individuals at the Sima de ...

Hominid footprints found on Crete date back 5.6 million years, making them by far the oldest ever discovered in Europe.

“Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique has fossil sites that, as recently as 2016, had never been explored. It is here that the Paleo-Primate Project (PPP) studies fossil evidence and living primates ...

In recent decades, scientists have debated whether a seven-million-year-old fossil was bipedal—a trait that would make it the oldest human ancestor. A new analysis by a team of anthropologists offers ...

New burial dating techniques applied to South African cave sediments reveal that Australopithecus fossils are far older than previously believed. The revised dates reshape early human evolution and ...

One of the most complete human ancestor fossils ever found may belong to an entirely new species, according to an international research team. The famous “Little Foot” skeleton from South Africa has ...

In recent decades, scientists have debated whether a seven-million-year-old fossil was bipedal—a trait that would make it the oldest human ancestor. A new analysis by a team of anthropologists offers ...

Scientists may have cracked the case of whether a seven-million-year-old fossil could walk upright. A new study found strong anatomical evidence that Sahelanthropus tchadensis was bipedal, including a ...

More than two decades ago, scientists digging in Central Africa unearthed the 7-million-year-old remains of what may be one of the earliest known human ancestors. Only a few fossils were recovered ...