Archaeologists in Israel unearthed prehistoric hand axes that Homo erectus crafted from stones including fossils and crystals ...

An English zoologist, he wrote an immensely popular 1967 book arguing that ancient genes, shared with apes, shape our lives.

The terms hominid and hominin are often used interchangeably, but they do not mean the same thing. Hominids include all great ...

Analysis of a 7.2-million-year-old thigh bone recovered from the Azmaka fossil deposit in Bulgaria suggests that the capacity ...

A unique comedy improv approach called ‘The Experts’ starts off with a TED-talk style lecture by an actual expert in their field, followed by the comedy team at Lickety-Split improvising by taking ...

William L. Jungers was born in Palacios on Nov. 17, 1948, and went on to become one of the country’s best-known biological ...

We’re in the Turkana Basin in Northern Kenya, a part of the world responsible for so many hominin fossil finds that it’s ...

Explore the complex 2-million-year journey of human evolution. From the Handy Man in Africa to the interbreeding of ...

Digital reconstruction of the face of the Little Foot fossil. Credit: A. Beaudet / CC BY-SA 4.0 More than three million years before ancient civilizations emerged, a small-brained, upright-walking ...

The digital reconstruction of the iconic fossil, Little Foot, reveals unexpected similarities with Ethiopian specimens, contributing to debates on early hominin relationships. A new digital ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Little Foot’s face, however, has long eluded characterization—the fossil’s skull was smashed in after an estimated 3.67 million ...