The oldest hominin fossils outside of Africa hail from Dmanisi in Georgia, yet the debate over which human species these ancient remains belong to is far from settled. Dated to around 1.85 million ...

Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a ...

Scientists may have cracked the case of whether a seven-million-year-old fossil could walk upright. A new study found strong ...

In the research, published Wednesday (Jan. 7) in the journal Nature, a team of Moroccan and French researchers detailed their ...

The oldest ancestor of humans may be a seven-million-year-old ape, which started walking upright two million years earlier than other hominids.

The legendary “Little Foot” fossil may be an entirely new human ancestor. An international team of scientists led by ...

A seven-million-year-old fossil may mark the moment our ancestors first stood up and walked.

FILE - The framed hominid fossil "Lucy" is seen at a exhibition at the Ethiopian Natural History Museum in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2006. (AP Photo/Les Neuhaus, file) ...

One of the most complete human ancestor fossils ever found may belong to an entirely new species, according to an ...

Human history features a pivotal moment when four-legged beings stood upright on two legs. Scholars regard this shift as the ...