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

The way Sahelanthropus tchadensis moved has long been debated. The discovery of a small bump on the front of the thigh bone ...

Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to unravel in 2025.

For decades, the story seemed settled: one early human species left Africa and spread across the world. But a new study ...

A collection of bones from Casablanca holds important new clues to the origins of modern humans and Neanderthals.

A new study from Northwestern University is reshaping how scientists think about brain evolution. The research suggests that ...

The jawbones and vertebrae of a hominin that lived 773,000 years ago have been found in North Africa and could represent a ...

Ten fossil teeth belong to new Australopithecus species Found in Afar Region, they are 2.65 million years old This species coexisted with an early Homo species Fossils underscore complex nature of ...

A new analysis of enigmatic skulls from the Republic of Georgia suggest that Homo erectus wasn't the only human species to ...