A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 ...

The asteroid's neck, or "collum," — which joins the two lobes — has been named Windover. The name comes from the Windover ...

Hominids include all great apes and humans, while hominins specifically cover humans and our closest extinct relatives. From Australopithecus to Homo erectus and beyond, this split explains why chimps ...

These famous World Heritage Sites are loudly and proudly South African to the core. Here's where you can visit them!

Left molars from the Ledi-Geraru specimen (left) and a specimen from Hadar, another fossil site in Ethiopia (right). “LD 760 molars compared to A. afarensis.” by  Villmoare et al. from Nature ...

Some cosmic events could have profoundly altered the lives of our ancient human relatives. Did Neanderthals go extinct, at ...

New dating methods at the Sterkfontein caves in South Africa reveal Australopithecus fossils are between 3.4 and 3.7 million years old, not 2 million as once believed. This discovery pushes back their ...

Researchers have unearthed tooth fossils in Ethiopia dating to about 2.65 million years ago of a previously unknown species in the human evolutionary lineage, one that lived in the same time and place ...

Global cooling associated with the impact of supernova remnants may have affected plants and animals, including species related to humans.

Discovering the hidden steps in human pelvis development through embryonic research, shedding light on bipedal evolution mysteries.