Romania is making strides in the archaeological world after new evidence confirmed the presence of ancient hominins in the ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the 700,000-year-old fossils of an ancient hominid ancestor of homo floresiensis - a human relative often known as the Hobbits. The researchers uncovered the ...

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.

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 ...