A new digital reconstruction of the face of an early Australopithecus specimen helps add details about the origins of our own ...

Mushrooms have been used by ancient humans for millennia, but archaeologists have only just uncovered their pivotal role in ...

Digital reconstruction reveals the face of 'Little Foot,' a nearly 4 million-year-old human ancestor. The Carolina Panthers ...

Little Foot” is the most complete Australopithecus fossil ever found. And now we finally have an idea of what this group of ...

An ancient skull has finally shown us what the Denisovans looked like redrawing our family tree and transforming the hunt for Ancestor X ...

The fossilised bones of our ancestors remain silent. So, how can we possibly imagine what our earliest languages sounded like ...

You might think that classifying the remains of ancient human ancestors should be easy. When someone finds a skull or other bone, the scientists can analyze it and determine whether it is a modern ...

Scientists analyze fossils and vocal tract models to reconstruct what the languages of prehistoric humans may have sounded like.

Fragments of BRT-VP-2/135 before assembly. The specimen was found in 29 pieces of which 27 of them were recovered by sifting and picking the sifted dirt. With the help of newly identified bones, an ...

The earliest known hand-held wooden tools, used by our early human ancestors around 430,000 years ago, have been uncovered by researchers at an archeological site in Greece. One is made from the trunk ...

UNLV Anthropology Professor Brian Villmoare and a team of scientists discovered fossilized teeth. UNLV Anthropology Professor Brian Villmoare and a team of international scientists discovered ...