New discoveries shed light on an ancient human species and its evolutionary links to modern humans. Stephen Chester, ...

Scientists have successfully reconstructed the face of Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis, providing a ...

Their analyses revealed the green Sahara individuals likely branched off from the ancestors of sub-Saharan Africans roughly ...

A fossilized jawbone found off the coast of Taiwan more than 20 years ago belonged to a group of ancient humans, called the ...

Researchers have determined that a mysterious jawbone discovered on the seafloor off the coast of Taiwan was Denisovan, ...

A combined study on the morphology of the human pelvis – leveraging genetics and deep learning on data from more than 31,000 individuals – reveals ...

Homo sapiens migrated out of Africa roughly 50,000 years ago, but scientists have now discovered that some chose to remain ...

“Seeing Lucy’s face is like glimpsing a bridge to the distant past, offering a visual connection to human evolution,” Brazil’s Cicero Moraes, a pioneer in the field of forensic facial reconstructions, ...

New radioisotopic datings of volcanic fossil sites are helping researchers unravel the evolution of mammals. The University ...

Discover the face of Lucy, the most famous ancestor of modern humans, through groundbreaking forensic facial reconstruction.

WashU students have advocated for the repatriation of the Robert J. Terry Anatomical Skeletal Collection and the renouncement ...

Researchers found evidence that the joints evolved as the species became active predators with jaws and mobile skeletons.