An international team of researchers has presented this week the analysis of a fossil discovered in Bulgaria that could ...

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

Studying human evolution involves piecing together scattered clues about how we survived against tough odds. One of the biggest mysteries is understanding how large or small ancient human populations ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This artist rendering shows hands of early human ancestors, called Australopithecus sediba and Homo naledi, found in South Africa.

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But they add one caveat. Someday, they say, the researchers must teach them how to get history from the ground. The quest for fossils of human ancestors began in earnest after Charles Darwin proposed ...

(CNN) — Archaeologists have uncovered a collection of bone tools in northern Tanzania that were shaped by ancient human ancestors 1.5 million years ago, making them the oldest known bone tools by ...