For decades, Paranthropus boisei, an early hominin that roamed eastern Africa a million years ago, was known for its gigantic jaw and powerfully constructed biting muscles. Its coarse-grass and reed ...

From the first stone tools to global migration, human evolution is a story of adaptation, resilience, and change. Fossils, artifacts, and genetic clues reveal how early hominins walked upright, ...

One of three jawbones excavated from Thomas Quarry in Morocco that is 773,000 years old. - Hamza Mehimdate/Programme Préhistoire de Casablanca Fossils unearthed in Morocco from a little-understood ...

Neanderthals may not only have feasted on rhinoceroses, they may also have used their exceptionally hard teeth as specialized ...

Scientists say they have solved the mystery of the Burtele foot, a set of 3.4 million-year-old bones found in Ethiopia in 2009. The fossils, along with others unearthed more recently, have now been ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral ...

New 3D analysis of a German skull clears up decades of confusion, placing this human firmly in the modern family tree.

China’s fossils are rewriting our human story New fossil analyses from China are challenging what we thought we knew about human evolution. The Yunxian skulls, once thought to be Homo erectus, are now ...

(CNN) — Fossils unearthed in Morocco from a little-understood period of human evolution may help scientists resolve a long-standing mystery: Who came before us? Three jawbones, including one from a ...