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

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

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

A fascinating new discovery has emerged from Ethiopia’s Ledi-Geraru Research Area, where researchers uncovered fossilized teeth that challenge our understanding of early human evolution. According to ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

Early humans : of whom do we speak? / Richard E. Leakey -- Homo habilis - a premature discovery : remembered by one of its founding fathers, 42 years later / Phillip V. Tobias -- Where does the genus ...

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