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

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 ...

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. He estimated the facial features of the ancient hominid using the eye-to ...

And this list is getting longer. As scientists discover new fossils, the hominid family tree grows new branches. But fossils are often difficult to categorize neatly as one species or another.

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.

"What we have found are arguably the most complete early hominid skeletons ever discovered. Each individual is far more complete than the famous Lucy fossil from Ethiopia."The hominids walked upright ...

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 ...

fossil hunters in Kenya have been excavating a treasure trove of hominid fossils, including a few species found nowhere else Homo helmei is one of several obscure species of our own genus that are ...

In confirming the sex of one of the most iconic hominid fossils, researchers are helping explain the great physical diversity in Australopithecus africanus A 3.4-million-year-old fossil foot shows ...