Walking on two legs has long been considered a milestone in human evolution and one of our most defining characteristics.

A new digital reconstruction of the face of an early Australopithecus specimen helps add details about the origins of our own ...

FILE: Reconstructions of a Neanderthal man, left, and woman at the Neanderthal museum in Mettmann, Germany, March 2009 ...

Little Foot’s face looks like it has been through a slow-motion car crash, because it has. For millions of years, rock ...

The researchers also found that Neanderthals had far more human DNA on their X chromosomes than expected. This confirms the ...

In a paper in Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, researchers argue that a 7.2-million-year-old femur from the Azmaka site preserves a blend of traits consistent with an early, transitional ...

New research reveals that ancient interbreeding between humans and Neanderthals shaped our modern human DNA - especially on ...

Video. Growing research – including ancient DNA technology – is changing the picture of human evolution and how our ancestors interacted with other human-like creatures.

Your body is with you 24/7. But how often do you actually stop to think about what it’s doing? Probably not much, and ...

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

Learn how advanced scanning and 3D reconstruction revealed the face of the Little Foot fossil and new insights into Australopithecus and early human evolution in Africa.

While there is a common belief that the evolution of humans can be traced back to fishlike vertebrate ancestors, pinpointing the origins of bony fish — a key group in this evolution — remains ...