Walking on two legs has long been considered a milestone in human evolution and one of our most defining characteristics.

A 7.2-million-year-old femur found in Bulgaria reveals early signs of upright walking and reopens the debate on human origins ...

Little Foot, a 3.67 million-year-old human ancestor, is getting a digital facial reconstruction after her skull was crushed ...

While there is a common belief that the evolution of humans can be traced back to fishlike vertebrate ancestors, pinpointing ...

Little Foot’s face looks like it has been through a slow-motion car crash, because it has. For millions of years, rock ...

The discovery of a new fossil has once again turned our understanding of human evolution on its head. This monumental find suggests that hominins may have ventured out of Africa much earlier than ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Newly discovered fossils in Kenya reveal that Paranthropus boisei, once seen as a simple plant-eater, had surprisingly human-like ...

BEIJING, March 5 (Xinhua) -- Fossils of two fish from over 400 million years ago -- one a tiny streamlined creature, the other a giant among vertebrates of its time with bizarre teeth -- have been dis ...

Learn how advanced scanning and 3D reconstruction revealed the face of the Little Foot fossil and new insights into ...

Analysis - Could a Moroccan cave hold a crucial piece of the puzzle of human origins? Hominin fossils dating back 773,000 years discovered in the country are bringing new evidence to the debate about ...

Fossils of two fish from over 400 million years ago -- one a tiny streamlined creature, the other a giant among vertebrates ...