For most of the 20th century, the model of human origins was a tree: with the trunk dividing into branches, and then twigs.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Excavating the new trackway site, with footprints from hominins, birds and other animals visible in foreground. Neil Roach Human ...

In 1970, the renowned paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey found an ancient, nondescript leg bone sitting on the ground in Ileret, Kenya. Now, 53 years on, a research team has found marks on the bone they ...

A team of natural scientists, musculoskeletal specialists, and evolutionary biologists affiliated with several institutions in the U.K., working with a colleague from the Netherlands, has found via ...

Recently, a man visiting his parents’ newly renovated home recognized an eerily familiar white curve in their tile floor. To the man, a dentist, it looked just like a jawbone. He could even count the ...

Human footprints stir the imagination. They invite you to follow, to guess what someone was doing and where they were going. Fossilized footprints preserved in rock do the same — they record instants ...

Thesefossils, unearthed from the depths of Southeast Asia’s Sunda Shelf, provide valuable insights into the migration and evolutionary patterns of early humans. This breakthrough study, published in ...

“The March of progress”, created by Rudolph Zallinger in 1965, is an image that has launched a thousand T-shirts. It shows a line-up of six figures. The first is hunched and ape-like. The rest become ...

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The first evidence of human relatives walking on two feet comes from about 70 footprints left by at least two Australopithecus afarensis walking across soft volcanic ash about 3.6 million years ago. A ...