Even though humans are the only remaining hominin species on the planet, our family tree is actually more complicated than you may realize.

Paranthropus was an ape-like hominin that survived alongside early humans for more than a million years. A fossilised leg ...

From the six- to seven-million-year-old Sahelanthropus tchadensis skull found in Chad ... visitors will see how physically adapted they were to cold climates. The tiny Homo floresiensis highlights ...

Are the bones of several tiny individuals from the island of Flores the newest addition to our family tree, or are they the remains of diseased humans only masquerading as an extinct species?

The astonishingly small adult limb bone discovered in Indonesia rekindles debates about modern humans' ancient relative, Homo floresiensis. The new find offers fresh insights into this diminutive ...

and 'Hobbit' (Homo floresiensis, about 90,000 years old) skeletons, from Ethiopia and Indonesia, respectively," says Professor Pickering from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, who led the ...