The first-ever published research on Tinshemet Cave reveals that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens in the mid-Middle Paleolithic ...

William L. Jungers was born in Palacios on Nov. 17, 1948, and went on to become one of the country’s best-known biological ...

Having a tail that extends beyond the anal opening is a requirement of membership in the phylum Chordata, where humans and ...

Explore the complex 2-million-year journey of human evolution. From the Handy Man in Africa to the interbreeding of ...

In 2023, two South African fossils were carried aboard a Virgin Galactic commercial spaceflight: a 2 million-year-old ...

Early human relatives experienced risky childbirth due to pelvic shape, revealing deep evolutionary roots of birth difficulty.

More than three million years ago, in the area that is now Ethiopia, our early human ancestors lived in a landscape that ...

Sonora native Debi Bolter shared the latest discoveries from what’s considered to be one of the world’s most important fossil ...

Traces of early humans have been found in our backyard, but how much do you know about South Africa's Cradle of Humankind?

TÜBINGEN, GERMANY—According to a statement released by the University of Tübingen, an international team of researchers who evaluated a fossil femur unearthed at the site of Azmaka in southern ...

Little Foot, a 3.67 million-year-old human ancestor, is getting a digital facial reconstruction after her skull was crushed ...

What did the face of one of our ancestors look like more than 3 million years ago? Our international team has answered this question by virtually reconstructing the facial fragments of Little Foot, ...