Human evolution is not a straight line but a complex branching tree shared with other great apes. This overview explains the ...

Recent fossil finds could mean that "Lucy" wasn't our direct ancestor, some scientists say. Others strongly disagree.

NEW YORK (AP) — A fossil find adds another twig to the human evolutionary tree, giving further evidence that the well-known “Lucy” species had company in what is now Ethiopia, a new study says. A ...

A foot fossil found in Ethiopia belonged to an ancient human. The finding could knock one of the most famous names in human evolution from her spot on the family tree.

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

(Reuters) -Researchers have unearthed tooth fossils in Ethiopia dating to about 2.65 million years ago of a previously unknown species in the human evolutionary lineage, one that lived in the same ...

After decades of excavation and debate, a new analysis argues that Little Foot — one of the most complete hominin fossils ...

An aerial view shows a research team standing alongside the fossil footprint trackway at the excavation site on the eastern side of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya, 2022. (Louise Leakey via AP) An ...

A newly published scientific study is reigniting debate over human evolution in Africa after researchers suggested that the ...

HUBEI, China — A badly crushed cranium unearthed decades ago from a riverbank in central China that once defied classification is now shaking up the human family tree, according to a new analysis.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WASHINGTON (AP) — Bones found in an Israeli ...