New study of 7-million-year-old fossils from Chad proves Sahelanthropus tchadensis walked upright while still climbing trees.

A research team at the British Museum, led by Nick Ashton and Rob Davis, reports evidence that ancient humans could make and ...

The earliest known proof that humans could create fire rather than simply use it now sits in a patch of scorched sediment and broken stone tools from eastern England, shifting a cornerstone of early ...

Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a ...

In recent decades, scientists have debated whether a seven-million-year-old fossil was bipedal—a trait that would make it the ...

A fossil belonging to an ancient hominin that lived seven million years ago bears the hallmarks of bipedalism, according to a ...

Scientists may have cracked the case of whether a seven-million-year-old fossil could walk upright. A new study found strong ...

Excited scientists announced Wednesday they have discovered evidence in the UK of humans deliberately making fire 400,000 years ago, dramatically pushing back the timeline for when our ancient ...

Could Homo sapiens and an archaic and now-extinct species of early human have lived alongside each other on the Indonesian ...

In her report, Smith says researchers at the University of Oregon have uncovered new evidence suggesting a site in southern ...

The circumstances of the man’s death are peculiar. A recent study published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences has revealed unprecedented details of the earliest-documented ...