A fossil belonging to an ancient hominin that lived seven million years ago bears the hallmarks of bipedalism, according to a ...

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This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

New study of 7-million-year-old fossils from Chad proves Sahelanthropus tchadensis walked upright while still climbing trees.

Understanding this crucial point in human history has focused on the Dmanisi Hominid Archaeological Site in Georgia where ...

A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

A research team at the British Museum, led by Nick Ashton and Rob Davis, reports evidence that ancient humans could make and ...

Learn how pigs spread across Pacific islands, what their DNA reveals about ancient human journeys, and why their legacy still ...

On a dry lakebed in southern New Mexico, a set of ghostly footprints has forced archaeologists to redraw the map of the first ...

The earliest evidence of deliberate fire-making by humans was discovered at 400,000-year-old site in Barnham, England, ...

Smart home tech brands will often label everything as "AI," but not all of it will actually be. Conversational voice ...