A study of rare fossils has revealed what our ancient human ancestors, the Denisovans, might have looked like.

Lucy was not a missing link in the tidy sense. Her bones show that the traits we call human arrived in pieces, not in one dramatic evolutionary leap. Lucy is often introduced as if she were a creature ...

The fossil record shows that our Homo erectus ancestors were the first hominins to show signs of adapting to life on the ...

Most of what we knew about early modern humans has been turned upside down in the past two decades – and many more questions ...

Together, these findings can help reshape how we interpret the fossil record and raise fresh questions about the uniquely human ways our teeth are affected today. Why teeth matter in human evolution ...

A blast from the past! Archeologists unearthed fossilized bone fragments in a cave in Spain that may represent a previously unknown species — making it the oldest-known human fossil ever discovered in ...

Whenever anything is written about the Denisovans, the word "mysterious" is almost guaranteed to appear. That is because we just don't know a lot about this extinct human group that may have lived in ...

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 ...

A 2-million-year-old skull fragment from South Africa may be an adult Homo erectus, predating previously discovered fossils by 200,000 years.