Researchers have revealed new details about the brain, pelvis, hands and feet of Australopithecus sediba, a primitive hominin that existed around the same time early Homo species first began to appear ...

Hand bones from a single individual with a clear taxonomic affiliation are scarce in the hominin fossil record, which has hampered understanding of the evolution of manipulative abilities in hominins.

That’s kind of the state of affairs in human evolution, especially now that a new branch of the clan has crawled out of some anthropological backwater and horned its way into the party.

Fossils of our earliest ancestors in the "cradle of humankind" are a million years older than previously thought, according to new research. The Sterkfontein Caves in Johannesburg, South Africa, ...

The researchers said the newly found teeth bore traits indicating they belonged to a seventh species. Researchers unearthed 10 tooth fossils dating back 2.65 million years in Ethiopia's Afar Region ...

Fossils of early human ancestors in the so-called 'Cradle of Humankind' in South Africa may be more than a million years older than previously thought, according to a new study. The Sterkfontein Caves ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists on Wednesday announced the landmark discovery in Ethiopia of a nearly complete skull of an early human ancestor that lived 3.8 million years ago, a species boasting ...