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 ...

The story of human evolution is far from a straight line — it’s a complex web of species, adaptations, and interconnections. New fossil discoveries and genetic studies are reshaping our understanding ...

New research into Upper Paleolithic fossils from western Eurasia suggests that hybridization between ancient human groups was not a rare side event, but a major force in human evolution. By comparing ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

A child's skull discovered in a South African quarry in 1924 changed human history. Named the Taung Child, this fossil proved ...

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

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

(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 ...