LOS ANGELES -- After examining the fossils of two hominids that lived nearly 2 million years ago, anthropologists said that the anatomical features of the adult female and young male strongly suggest ...

Who came before us? This question has always intrigued scientists. Fossils recently unearthed in Morocco could help us solve this enigma. The 21 bones discovered in early January at a site known as ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The Dmanisi Hominid Archaeological Site is home to the oldest hominid fossils in Europe, and many studies have tried to sort through the fossils to ...

Ongoing studies of Neanderthal skeletons unearthed in Iraq during the 1950s suggest the existence of a more complex social structure than previously thought. Karen Carr 1n 1856, laborers working in a ...

A fossil jaw originally netted by fishermen off the ocean floor near Taiwan’s west coast belonged to a member of a mysterious hominid population known as Denisovans, scientists report in the April 11 ...

Hominid teeth hold clues to our evolutionary history. Learn how fossilized teeth reshape our understanding of human origins and the complexity of our family tree. Probing the origins of humanity is ...

This is a guest post from a member of Science in the News (SITN), an organization of PhD students at Harvard University whose mission is to bring the newest and most relevant science to a general ...

Read full article: Person riding scooter dies in St. Johns County crash on SR-16 at Ponce De Leon Blvd. FILE - The framed hominid fossil "Lucy," is seen at a exhibition at the Ethiopian Natural ...

An ancient, distant human cousin from southern Africa called Paranthropus robustus has for the first time revealed molecular clues to its evolutionary status. Sequences of a protein derived from a ...