A boy's 2008 find in South Africa led to Australopithecus sediba, an ancient human relative about 2 million years old.

It has now been identified as the oldest adult Homo erectus specimen found in Africa. Catalogued as DNH 127, the fragment ...

Archaeologists identified hominin fossils in South Africa, including a 2-million-year-old adult Homo erectus fossil.

New evidence from fossils representing two groups of human ancestors—Australopithecus and early Homo—adds an important piece to the puzzle. In the study, just published in the journal Science Advances ...

The first major evolutionary change in the human diet was the incorporation of meat and marrow from large animals, which ...

New research from the University of St Andrews has created the largest combined study of bat genomes and fossils ever ...

Digital reconstruction suggests an early human from Morocco may have looked remarkably similar to people today.

After spending more than 300,000 years hidden in the ground beneath Morocco, an ancient ancestor has been brought back to ...

The 22-inch dinosaur lived more than 100 million years ago, and its complete skeleton and preserved feathers are offering new ...

Tiny relatives of our cellular ancestors reshape long protrusions within minutes and pull themselves across surfaces using ancient actin machinery.

University of Sydney study suggests Australopithecus afarensis obtained over 65% of daily energy from sugary fruits to fuel ...

From the start, Wearing sets out to win over readers who might be sceptical, taking on the broad (and, arguably, often sexist ...