Little Foot’s face looks like it has been through a slow-motion car crash, because it has. For millions of years, rock ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The long thumb and straight fingers would have allowed Paranthropus boisei to form a powerful grip, similar to how modern humans ...

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

Could a Moroccan cave hold a crucial piece of the puzzle of human origins? Hominin fossils dating back 773,000 years discovered in the country are bringing new evidence to the debate about the last ...

Tiny fossil teeth from Colorado are revealing new clues about the very first relatives of primates, including humans.

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

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

Learn how advanced scanning and 3D reconstruction revealed the face of the Little Foot fossil and new insights into Australopithecus and early human evolution in Africa.

Fossils unearthed in Morocco from a little-understood period of human evolution may help scientists resolve a long-standing mystery: Who came before us? Three jawbones, including one from a child, ...

Scientists discovered some of the oldest bony fish fossils in China. The fossils explain the early history of animals with backbones.