A new study reveals climate-driven lake swings subtly reshape Lake Turkana’s crust, loosening rock, accelerating faults, and ...

Human evolution is not a straight line but a complex branching tree shared with other great apes. This overview explains the ...

A newly published scientific study is reigniting debate over human evolution in Africa after researchers suggested that the ...

Scientists say they have solved the mystery of the Burtele foot, a set of 3.4 million-year-old bones found in Ethiopia in 2009. The fossils, along with others unearthed more recently, have now been ...

In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...

An international study led by researchers from Australia's La Trobe University and the University of Cambridge has challenged ...

After decades of excavation and debate, a new analysis argues that Little Foot — one of the most complete hominin fossils ...

At the base of mossy trees, deep in the mountains of Taiwan and mainland Japan or nestled in the subtropical forests of Okinawa, grows what most might mistake for a mushroom—but it is actually a very ...

Australopithecus is an extinct group of ape-like modern human relatives—or potentially ancestors—that walked upright and ...

Australian-led study suggests iconic South African skeleton differs from known Australopithecus species, media reports - ...

“Many people equate plants with photosynthesis, yet Balanophora illustrates that being a plant does not require being green,” ...

Specimen found in South Africa was widely thought to be member of ape-like human ancestor family that lived nearly 2 million ...