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 ...

But for earlier humans, meat consumption appeared to be a critical, yet somewhat poorly understood, contributor to ...

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

A child's skull discovered in a South African quarry in 1924 changed human history. Named the Taung Child, this fossil proved Africa is the cradle of humanity. It showed early humans had ape-like ...

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 ...

China’s fossils are rewriting our human story New fossil analyses from China are challenging what we thought we knew about ...

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.Related video above ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A fossil cranium, which is around 1 million years old and was initially ...

New genetic research is rewriting the human origin story, showing that our species likely evolved from multiple interconnected populations across Africa rather than a single ancestral group. Fossils, ...

Scientists have found that the crust beneath East Africa’s Turkana Rift is thinning to a critical point, signaling that the ...