Newly found footprints show at least two hominid species were walking through the submerged edge of a lake in the Turkana Basin in Kenya at the same time. The discovery, from the renowned hominid ...

The Beloit-based Roy Chapman Andrews Society honors a UW-Madison paleoanthropologist. The society is dedicated to promoting ...

They say it's important to look to the past in order to move forward into the future. Humans have evolved considerably, but ...

When Ham set off on his space flight in 1961, he paved the way for the first American to go to space months later.

A new study confirms that wild baboons do not recognize themselves in mirrors, reinforcing previous research on monkey ...

"Lucy's skeletal remains will be displayed in Europe for the first time ever," Prime Minister Petr Fiala told reporters as he ...

Australia’s First Nations population, the Aboriginal Australians, say that they have always been in Australia. The evidence suggests that they are right. Indigenous Australians arrived on the ...

The 3.18-million-year-old remains of Lucy, one of the oldest human ancestors, will be displayed in Europe for the first time ever.

During the years of research, the team was closely collaborated with by Peruvian journalist Jois Mantilla, who suggested that ...

superseding all other hominid species. The implication of this argument is that all modern people are ultimately of African descent. The other theory, known as the 'Multi-regional' Model ...

Scientists make their case for classifying an extinct group that lived in northern China until 120,000 years ago as a separate species Sometime between 200,000 and 160,000 years ago, a group of ...

Scientists from the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) and the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Germany published ...