This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

Early humans may have feasted on Neanderthal children 45,000 years ago, according to a grisly new study. Researchers have ...

The year's top paleontological wonders ranged from a 540-million-year-old penis worm to a decades-old rodent impression.

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The Lucy fossil’s role in human evolution is debated: new discoveries question whether she was truly our direct ancestor.

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A key question in human evolution explores the identity of the first human to leave Africa, and a new study offers fresh ...

Scientists have solved the mystery of 3.4 million-year-old fossils called the “Burtele Foot” discovered in Ethiopia in 2009, ...

Revolutionary fossil evidence from Ethiopia is challenging decades of scientific consensus about human origins. New discoveries suggest that the famous Lucy fossil, long considered a direct ancestor ...

The history of humanity on Earth spans well over a million years. Ancient human species such as Australopithecus, who walked ...

Lucy's position in the history of human evolution is currently being challenged. The Lucy fossil species, or Australopithecus ...

In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...