The Turkana Rift (or East African Rift) in East Africa is famous for its human fossils and volcanic activity. But a recent ...

We know that Homo sapiens weren't the only humans to walk the Earth, but a reconstruction of one ancestor is leaving ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral ...

Learn how fossil evidence reveals the repeatable way early humans accessed, processed, and shared meat.

Scientists have discovered human fossils originating from around the time of one of evolution’s most decisive turning points. Unearthed in Morocco, the bones date to roughly the time when our ...

Ethiopian researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery that fundamentally challenges our understanding of human evolution by uncovering fossil evidence of a previously unknown species that ...

(CNN) — The first known hand fossils from an extinct human relative have been unearthed in Kenya, revealing a species with unexpected dexterity and a gorilla-like grip. The hand bones, which were ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

But for earlier humans, meat consumption appeared to be a critical, yet somewhat poorly understood, contributor to ...