Australopithecus discoveries rewriting our origin story New fossil discoveries in Africa are transforming our understanding of Australopithecus and its place in human evolution. Evidence now shows ...

It might not be a coincidence that one of the most interesting geologic locations in the world is also palaeoanthropology’s ...

A new genetic study shows that cultural diversity in the so-called Southern Cone—the roughly triangular southernmost part of ...

Eastern Africa’s Turkana Rift is both a hotbed for fossil discoveries of our earliest ancestors and a literal hotbed of ...

A study using ancient DNA has identified notable evolutionary adjustments to dietary, settlement, disease and other changes ...

A skull fragment discovered over fifty years ago on the banks of the Elbe River in Germany has finally yielded its secrets. Long considered by some researchers to be a rare Neanderthal-modern human ...

A new study reveals early human life in Ethiopia, showing how humans made tools, used resources, and adapted to their ...

New 3D analysis of a German skull clears up decades of confusion, placing this human firmly in the modern family tree.

A nearly complete 90-million-year-old dinosaur fossil, Alnashetri cerropoliciensis, is turning evolutionary theories upside ...

Professor Simon Conway Morris, a groundbreaking paleontologist at the University of Cambridge, has been awarded the 2026 Templeton Prize for his outstanding contributions to the field of evolutionary ...

Peter Ungar, University of Arkansas anthropology professor, dental topographic analysis, fossil teeth microwear, human ...

If evolution has been a constant ever since the origin of life 4.2 billion years ago, then why do some claim that, for humans ...