The recent unearthing of a non-human skull embedded within a cave wall has ignited a wave of interest among the scientific ...

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. Upper and lower canine teeth and ...

Scientists suggest it may be the remains of a prehistoric hominin that walked alongside Neanderthals hundreds of thousands of ...

Newly found footprints show at least two hominid species were walking through the submerged edge of a lake in the Turkana Basin in Kenya at the same time. The discovery, from the renowned hominid ...

Many known hominin fossils defy species classification, with the most famous example being the ever-enigmatic Denisovans. A new study by anthropologists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the ...

A new species of hominin or humans has been discovered in Northern China with an unforgettable physical feature— large heads. Everyone knows the Neanderthals, homo sapiens, and Denisovans are amongst ...

Tim White, Berhane Asfaw, and Gen Suwa, who have long worked together unearthing and analyzing fossils in Africa, made a new and remarkable discovery in 1993. In Ethiopia, they found hominid skull, ...

In life, the creature probably resembled a chimpanzee more than anything else. It moved through a lakeside landscape of grasslands and forest searching for food, accompanied by small bands of its ...

The history of anthropology is littered with many now-defunct hominid species that no longer have a place on the human family tree Erin Wayman The Smithsonian Institution’s Human Origins Initiative ...

Inside a specially constructed safe at the National Museum of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa sit the fragile remains of the world’s most celebrated human ancestor. She was once a hardy survivor in an ...