The evolutionary history of the equid family, a fundamental pillar in the study of mammal paleontology that for decades has ...

Jane Goodall, the world’s most famous primatologist, died Wednesday at the age of 91, the Jane Goodall Institute announced on ...

A million-year-old skull from China, Yunxian 2, reshapes our understanding of human origins and ancient human relatives.

She used her global fame to draw attention to the plight of dwindling chimpanzee populations and, more broadly, to the perils ...

New research suggests that Homo floresiensis’ short stature is probably the result of a type of dwarfism that occurs in isolated environments.

Homo sapiens were thought to have appeared about 600,000 years ago, but two closely related million-year-old skulls suggest that our species might be even more ancient.

In a ground-breaking discovery nestled in the mountains of the Caucasus, archaeologists have unearthed a partial jawbone of Homo erectus in Georgia, which ...

New fossil research shows how human impacts, particularly through the rise of agriculture and livestock, have disrupted ...

Hobbits of Flores evolved to be small by slowing down growth during childhood, new research on teeth and brain size suggests.

A human skull believed to be older than a million years could alter our understanding of human evolution. Leading scientists have made a eureka breakthrough after analysing an ancient skull, known as ...

Decades after a skull was unearthed in China’s Hubei Province, researchers said they suspect a much earlier and more complex ...

For decades, textbooks painted a dramatic picture of early humans as tool-using hunters who rose quickly to the top of the ...