Their dream came spectacularly true on that momentous day in 1974. The Lucy fossil preserved skull fragments and a lower jaw with teeth, as well as parts of the arm, leg, pelvis, spine and ribs—47 ...

Considering how long humans have been on Earth, it’s surprising that we have been scientifically studying our evolution for ...

One of the 20th-century's biggest quests was to find the “missing link,” a being who connected humans to their pre-historic ...

Each of these ancient fossils, even if just a small part of a skeleton, represents an identifiable character in the story of humankind.

The Denisovans went extinct around 30,000 years ago. Scientists are just beginning to unravel their genetic legacy.

Thaís Pansani examines the marks humans left on megafauna bones to determine when people arrived in South America and how ...

In fact, while scientists once believed that Neanderthals, who disappear from the fossil record around 40,000 years ... just ...

New research in the Journal of Human Evolution suggests that the ancient ‘Lazarus’ primate was North America's last until ...

The 237-million-year-old remains are among the oldest silesaurid fossils ever found, adding to paleontologists' understanding ...

Previous excavations had found human fossils deposited in the cave dating ... develop unprecedented insights into the dynamics of our ancestors as they dispersed through the ever-changing forest ...

The mostly flightless, meat-eating dinosaur descendents were the size of dogs at their smallest, but the largest known ...

The images indicated that, similar to dolphins and whales, thallatosuchians evolved smaller braincase sinuses as they ...