While it shares features with modern humans, H. habilis also has traits that would have given it an advantage in climbing ...

Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago.

A nearly-complete adult jawbone, a partial adult jawbone, the jawbone of a child, a vertebrae and some teeth were discovered.

A seven-million-year-old fossil may mark the moment our ancestors first stood up and walked.

It’s considered to be one of the most decisive steps in human evolution. Now, scientists believe they have pinpointed when our ancestors made the transition from walking on all fours to standing on ...

Ancient fossils from Moroccan caves, dated with rare precision, offer rare insight into early human evolution.

She is not the oldest member of the extended human family, but she is by far the most complete of the early hominids; most of her skull and teeth as well as extremely rare bones of her pelvis, hands, ...

But what came before her? For 20 years after her discovery, it was as if the earliest chapter of the human story were missing. One of the first teams to search for lucy’s ancestor was the Middle Awash ...