Researchers have discovered fossil human footprints embedded in an ancient lakebed that show humans inhabited North America during the Last Glacial Maximum, in what is now New Mexico. Credit: National ...

In other words, he believed it to be a so-called “missing link” in the family tree between living apes and Homo sapiens. Dart ...

Scientists suggest meat consumption was pivotal to humans' development of larger brains, but the transition probably didn't ...

This week, meet a big-brained ancient human relative, hear a meteorite as it lands on Earth, spot a tiny kangaroo-like marsupial, and more.

A cache of human-like fossils from China has perplexed scientists for decades, defying explanation or categorization. The skull fragments, teeth, jaws and other remains unearthed at different ...

The research puts humans in Europe earlier than previously believed. Multiple cut-marked bones offer a key clue into the ...

Researchers have found evidence that early humans arrived in Europe half a million years earlier than previously thought at a ...

A paleontologist hailed the discovery as "truly an unusual find," adding it helped explain the relationships in the prehistoric food chain.

Discoveries in the past two decades have added new branches to the human family tree ... the puzzle presented by a collection of humanlike fossils that have defied explanation for decades.

A cache of human-like fossils from China has perplexed scientists for decades, defying explanation or categorization. The skull fragments, teeth, jaws and other remains unearthed at different sites ...