They came up a little short. A small archaic hominid known as the “hobbit” might have died out around 50,000 years ago after ...

The males of two bipedal hominid species that roamed the South African savanna more than a million years ago were stay-at-home kind of guys when compared to the gadabout gals, according to a new study ...

An ancient hominid skeleton dubbed Little Foot possessed a brain largely similar to that of modern chimpanzees and an inner ear with a mix of apelike and humanlike features, two studies suggest. These ...

Scientists have shown that ancient remains once thought to be a key link in man’s evolutionary history are 400,000 years to young to be part of human evolution. The results, published in the journal ...

Among the many surprises associated with the discovery of the oldest known, nearly complete skeleton of a hominid is the finding that this species took its first steps toward bipedalism not on the ...

An ancient, bipedal hominid sporting a set of powerful jaws and huge molars that earned it the nickname "Nutcracker Man" likely didn't crack nuts at all, preferring instead to slurp up vast quantities ...

The life and ultimate extinction of a robust creature that walked on two legs across the woods and grassy plains of South Africa more than 2 million years ago has always puzzled anthropologists. Its ...

June 4 (UPI) --To tell the full story of human evolution, researchers need to know what our earliest relatives looked like. Unfortunately, soft tissue reconstruction is quite difficult. In a new study ...

Hominid Hunting went on an unexpected hiatus in January. I’m finally back. For my first post, I thought I’d share what I’ve been thinking about for the past couple months: my fantasy fossil finds, or ...

The males of two bipedal hominid species that roamed the South African savannah more than a million years ago were stay-at-home kind of guys when compared to the gadabout gals, says a new high-tech ...