An individual from an enigmatic hominid species strode across a field of wet, volcanic ash in what is now East Africa around 3.66 million years ago, leaving behind a handful of footprints.

The announcement of a new hominid species Homo longi, possibly a parallel and contemporaneous species of Homo sapiens, has made the story of human evolution even more complex. The lead scientists ...

In 1958, a seemingly insignificant discovery made by farmers in the Guangdong province of southern China would soon challenge centuries of human evolutionary theory. While collecting bat guano for ...

Migrations to Eurasia happened in waves, and now the discovery of a 1.5-million-year-old fossil vertebra from an ancient hominid species is revealing more about where they went.

But to confirm Sahelanthropus‘ hominid status, and convince the skeptics that it’s not a non-hominid ape, scientists need to find the species’ post-cranial bones. 2.

While I was doing some research this week, I came across a hominid species I hadn’t heard of before: Homo helmei. The name was first given to a 259,000-year-old partial skull found in Florisbad ...

Welcome to the hominid family, Australopithecus sediba.Anthropologists in South Africadiscovered the new hominid species after researcher Lee Berger’s 9-year-old son stumbled upon the fossils on ...

Still, no one who supports the new-species theory suggests the hobbit is a direct ancestor of modern humans. Rather, they believe it represents a previously unknown branch of a pre-modern, hominid ...

Evidence continues to mount against the interpretation of a cave filled with ancient hominid bones as a sacred burial ground, one used long before modern humans were burying their own dead. The ...

The oldest known hominid stone artifacts — a set of pounding rocks and sharp-edged stone flakes — date to 3.3 million years ago in East Africa (SN: 6/13/15, p. 6).