Lucy, the famous Australopithecus afarensis fossil, still reshapes how scientists explain human evolution nearly 50 years ...

Instead of hunting big game or wielding fire, the hobbit-like hominin Homo floresiensis likely scavenged leftovers of prey ...

Hundreds of hominin fossils reveal that human body size remained stable for ages before a sharp increase in early members of ...

In this 4.4-million-year-old skeleton, scientists may have found the missing step between climbing and walking.

✅ Know Your Terms: Hominin refers to all humans, plus our ancestral species who walked upright on two feet (including members ...

An ancient human ancestor called Homo floresiensis was likely a scavenger who subsisted on the scraps left behind by the ...

Early Humans May Have Used Fire 1.8 Million Years Ago, Nearly Doubling the Age of the Oldest Known Evidence for the Feat ...

Human evolution is generally explained through changes in brain size, locomotion or tool use, but new research from Wits University suggests that gum disease and changes in facial structure may have ...

Børnich, a forty-two-year-old Norwegian, has been obsessed with robots since he was a child. His firm used to be called ...

Laughter is universal among humans. Researchers have found that our closest relatives, apes, also laugh, and do it with a ...

Researchers fed a Komodo dragon a goat to figure out if Homo floresiensis truly were the hunters they were originally thought to be.

For decades, we’ve thought that childbirth is uniquely challenging for humans, but it turns out that many other primates find ...