"And it is especially significant in demonstrating that micromorphology can be recovered from truly ancient hominid fossils without having to resort to destructive techniques. That is truly an ...

“The facial reconstructions of the Yunxian Man skull fossils brought together paleoanthropologists, forensic experts, 3D reconstruction specialists, and Paleolithic archaeologists,” Feng Xiaobo, a ...

The only known hominid fossils of that age in that location are those of Lucy and her kind, the small-brained but upright-walking hominids classified as Australopithecus afarensis. Some analysts ...

At the most basic level, human evolution is articulated through classifications of, and evolutionary relationships among, hominin species. This article presents a basic taxonomy and phylogeny of ...

Living hominoids (apes) are united by features related to their unusual locomotion, but few such traits are found in the earliest fossil forms. Which adaptations were likely present in the ...

Paleoartist John Gurche utilized fossils and genetic data from the extinct species to recreate plastic replicas of remains.

The most primitive hominid yet found, this species has more chimpanzee-like features than any other human ancestor. Ardipithecus ramidus may have walked upright. Other fossils discovered with A.

Scientists from the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) and the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Germany published new research in the journal Science last week that suggests our ancestors may ...

where some of paleoanthropology's most iconic fossils have been found The history of anthropology is littered with many now-defunct hominid species that no longer have a place on the human family ...

According to a Reddit user who shared images on the website’s fossils subreddit (r/fossils), their family noticed a peculiar item in their floors after installing new travertine tiles—something that ...