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

In the technical description, the authors emphasize that the skeleton includes clavicle and shoulder-blade fragments, both upper arms, both forearms, plus part of the sacrum and hip bones - rare ...

Learn how detailed 3D analysis uncovered evidence that upright walking emerged near the very start of the human lineage.

New study of 7-million-year-old fossils from Chad proves Sahelanthropus tchadensis walked upright while still climbing trees.

Scientists may have cracked the case of whether a seven-million-year-old fossil could walk upright. A new study found strong ...

A new study in Nature led by scientists at New York University reports that fossil bones as old as 3 million years still ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." A collection of 27 1.5-million-year-old bone tools discovered in Tanzania shows early humans had an ...

Archeologists know early humans used stone to make tools long before the time of Homo sapiens. But a new discovery out this week in Nature suggests early humans in eastern Africa were also using ...

WASHINGTON — Early humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago. A newly discovered cache of 27 carved and sharpened bones from elephants and hippos found in ...

Researchers have uncovered thousands of preserved metabolic molecules inside fossilized bones millions of years old, offering ...