A fossilized foot discovered in Ethiopia and left unclassified for over a decade has now been linked to a little-known human ...

Scientists have revealed the most complete skeleton yet of our 2 million-year-old ancestor Homo habilis.

Lucy is popularly depicted as being hairy, but new evidence suggests she wasn't. The discovery prompts new questions about the history of nudity. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Sixteen years ago a group of anthropologists discovered 3.4-million-year-old fossilized foot bones in Ethiopia. While they suspected the foot belonged to an ancient human that likely lived alongside ...

March 21 -- A 3.5-million-year-old, flat-faced early human skull, which paleontologists found poking from the crumbling Kenyan earth, could push "Lucy" out of our ancestral family tree. For 20 years, ...

- Where did we come from, and how did human beings evolve?The discovery of a three-million-year-old skeletonin the Ethiopian desertdramatically changed the way that scientists thoughtabout how we ...