You don't have to do fieldwork to make the next great scientific discovery. Sometimes, amazing finds are hiding right under ...

A remarkable discovery in northern Kenya has provided the first direct evidence that two early human relatives, Homo erectus ...

This finding helps scientists learn more about the daily lives and activities of Paranthropus robustus and adds more complexity to the story of human evolution. A New Prehistoric Ancestor Although ...

Paranthropus robustus was a species of prehistoric human that lived in South Africa about 2 million years ago, alongside Homo ...

The Secrets of Fossil Teeth Revealed by the Synchrotron: A Long Childhood Is the Prelude to the Evolution of a Large Brain Nov. 14, 2024 — Could social bonds be the key to human big brains?

A cache of 1.5 million-year-old bone tools uncovered in Tanzania suggest ancient human ancestors were capable of critical ...

For the past 150 years, scientists and laypeople alike have accepted a “savanna” scenario of human evolution. The theory, primarily based on fossil evidence, suggests that because our ancestral ape ...

Biologists previously believed modern birds had evolved 20 million years later than the new evidence suggests.

The ability of our skeletons to move with both flexibility and stability can be traced back to ancient jawed fish. Scientists ...

Prior to this find, bones shaped into tools had only been identified sporadically in rare, isolated instances in the fossil record and never in a manner that implied that human ancestors were ...

A 1.4-million-year-old fossil jaw discovered in a South African ... The new findings, detailed in a study published in the Journal of Human Evolution, have led researchers to conclude that the ...