A 2 million-year-old Australopithecus sediba clavicle and a 250,000-year-old Homo naledi thumb bone were carried aboard a ...
A 3.6-million-year-old trackway at Laetoli suggests early human walking may have been more diverse, and more surprising, than ...
A fossil discovery in Ethiopia changed our understanding of human evolution. Scientists found a 3.2-million-year-old skeleton ...
A chance dynamite blast in a South African quarry in 1924 unearthed the skull of a child, later named the Taung Child. This ...
The line that runs from ape to human was never a line. Thirteen fossil teeth pulled from the Afar region of Ethiopia show that the earliest known members of our own genus, Homo, shared their patch of ...
If you’re a lefty and have ever felt excluded from the right-handed club as you write a letter, throw a ball, or wield a ...
Humans and our ancestors have been creating tools, art, and everyday objects for millions of years, and each unexpected ...