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

For the first time, researchers have digitally reconstructed the facial fragments of the individual, who belonged to the Australopithecus genus ...

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

Walking on two legs has long been considered a milestone in human evolution and one of our most defining characteristics.

A 7.2-million-year-old femur found in Bulgaria reveals early signs of upright walking and reopens the debate on human origins.

New research that decoded the evolution of mosquitoes’ feeding habits from DNA could shed light on the murky timeline of prehistoric human ancestors.

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

It has long been thought that hominins – the taxonomic tribe to which humans belong – first appeared in Africa around 7 million years ago. However, researchers may have just found the remains of an ...

Homo erectus skulls from China’s Yunxian archaeological site revealed ages close to two million years—a million years older ...

So when did our human ancestors start making tools? Well, the earliest artifacts that we know of date back more than 3 million years, but early finds had been scattered and inconsistent until new ...

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

Researchers found evidence that suggests Neanderthals could make fire 400,000 years ago at an archaeological site near Suffolk in the United Kingdom. (Jordan Mansfield / Pathways to Ancient Britain ...