Digital reconstruction reveals the face of 'Little Foot,' a nearly 4 million-year-old human ancestor. Trent McDuffie has his ...

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

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.

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 Bulgaria suggests that it ...

If you've ever wondered what it would be like to natter with a Neanderthal or have a heart-to-heart with Homo Erectus, then ...

What did the face of our ancestors look like three million years ago? Our international team has answered this question by ...

Comparisons show the face size falls between a gorilla and an orangutan, with shape closer to orangutans and bonobos, and a ...

A new 3D model shows what "Little Foot," an early ancestor who lived in South Africa over 3.5 million years ago, may have ...

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 ...

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

Mosquitoes may have started targeting humans millions of years ago, possibly during the spread of Homo erectus in Southeast Asia.