For decades, scientists could not agree on whether to classify the Dickinsonia as an animal or not — until this new study ...

If there was any lingering question about the early manifestation of bipedality in human evolutionary history, it has been erased by recent fossil discoveries: a 4.4-million-year-old hominid from ...

Millions of years ago, much of the region was lush woodland. Tim White / Brill Atlanta Hunting for hominid fossils in Ethiopia, researchers "collect every piece of bone, every piece of wood ...

"These early images of Donaldjohanson are again showing the tremendous capabilities of the Lucy spacecraft as an engine of ...

Paleoanthropologist Louise Leakey, the granddaughter of Mary and Louis Leakey, who first determined that early humans evolved ...

A fossil jaw originally netted by fishermen off the ocean floor near Taiwan’s west coast belonged to a member of a mysterious hominid population known as Denisovans, scientists report in the ...

On April 20, the over 50-foot-wide Lucy spacecraft approached as close as some 600 miles from Donaldjohanson, which is aptly ...

The only known hominid fossils of that age in that location are those of Lucy and her kind, the small-brained but upright-walking hominids classified as Australopithecus afarensis. Some analysts ...

At the most basic level, human evolution is articulated through classifications of, and evolutionary relationships among, hominin species. This article presents a basic taxonomy and phylogeny of ...

Scientists have identified at least four hominid species—in addition to our own, Homo sapiens—that lived in this region at various times over the past 3.5 million years. “Fossils from South ...