WASHINGTON - Two million-year-old bones belonging to a creature with both apelike and human traits provide the clearest evidence of evolution's first major step toward modern humans - findings some ...

A nine year old boy in South Africa tripped over a rock during a dog walk in 2008 and uncovered bones that scientists now call a key piece in human evolution. This nearly two million year old skeleton ...

A team of scientists investigating early human species in an ancient cave near Johannesburg, South Africa, have revealed that preserved tissue found on a 2-million-year-old fossil may be the oldest ...

On Valentine's Day in 2018, a team of scientists walked across a flat expanse in the badlands of northeastern Ethiopia, scanning the ground for fossils. An eagle-eyed field assistant, Omar Abdulla, ...

WASHINGTON - Two skeletons nearly 2 million years old and unearthed in South Africa are part of a previously unknown species that scientists say fits the transition from ancient apes to modern humans.

My journey into archaeology and paleoanthropology started when I was seven years old, watching a cartoon with my mum. That cartoon was The Adventures of Tintin, and the episode was Cigars of the ...

The detailed examination of fossilized finger bones from southern Africa shows adaptations that enabled these ancestors to thrive in diverse environments. “They were likely walking on two feet and ...

WASHINGTON — Our hands can reveal a lot about how a person has lived – and that's true for early human ancestors, too. Different activities such as climbing, grasping or hammering place stress on ...

This artist rendering shows hands of early human ancestors, called Australopithecus sediba and Homo naledi, found in South Africa. The left images show photos of the bones, and the right images show ...