The 3.2-million-year-old set of bones, discovered in 1974, was once considered as belonging to the earliest known member of ...

The 3.18-million-year-old remains of Lucy, one of the oldest human ancestors, will be displayed in Europe for the first time ever.

A landmark study reporting the discovery of Australopithecus africanus one century ago put the African continent at the ...

The Czech prime minister announced on Tuesday that the skeleton remains of the Australopithecus will go on display in Prague next August.

In other words, he believed it to be a so-called “missing link” in the family tree between living apes and Homo sapiens. Dart ...

The prehistoric human skull found in the Petralona Cave in Northern Greece challenges the Out of Africa theory of the origin of Homo sapiens ...

Recent discoveries in China are challenging long-held assumptions about human evolution. A new study has proposed the ...

This week, meet a big-brained ancient human relative, hear a meteorite as it lands on Earth, spot a tiny kangaroo-like ...

Ancient Chinese fossils may belong to a new human species, Homo juluensis, with large brain sizes, challenging traditional ...

A cache of human-like fossils from China has perplexed scientists for decades, defying explanation or categorization. The ...

An international team of researchers report on the bird's fully preserved skull. The fossil was unearthed in the 1950s in a former lignite mining area in the Geiseltal in Germany. It was initially ...