Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The long thumb and straight fingers would have allowed Paranthropus boisei to form a powerful grip, similar to how modern humans ...

Could a Moroccan cave hold a crucial piece of the puzzle of human origins? Hominin fossils dating back 773,000 years discovered in the country are bringing new evidence to the debate about the last ...

Little Foot’s face looks like it has been through a slow-motion car crash, because it has. For millions of years, rock ...

Little Foot, a 3.67 million-year-old human ancestor, is getting a digital facial reconstruction after her skull was crushed ...

New research that decoded the evolution of mosquitoes’ feeding habits from DNA could shed light on the murky timeline of prehistoric human ancestors.

Walking on two legs has long been considered a milestone in human evolution and one of our most defining characteristics.

Tiny fossil teeth from Colorado are revealing new clues about the very first relatives of primates, including humans.

A 7.2-million-year-old femur found in Bulgaria reveals early signs of upright walking and reopens the debate on human origins.

(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 ...

The fossilised bones of our ancestors remain silent. So, how can we possibly imagine what our earliest languages sounded like ...

(CNN) — The first known hand fossils from an extinct human relative have been unearthed in Kenya, revealing a species with unexpected dexterity and a gorilla-like grip. The hand bones, which were ...