In July, South African paleontologists reported finding "a locomotor missing link" in the hominid fossil record. The foot bones of a species that lived as much as 3.5 million years ago ...

A new species of hominin or humans has been discovered in Northern China with an unforgettable physical feature— large heads. Everyone knows the Neanderthals, homo sapiens, and Denisovans are amongst ...

That new focus has led them to ask why the early hominid is so much smaller than ... dig deeply but also follow a single layer of the fossil record for many miles across the landscape.

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 ...

As scientists discover new fossils, the hominid family tree grows new branches ... This is the story of our distant relatives, as told by the fossil record.

The hominid, nearly two million years old ... filling in a blank spot in the fossil record. If so, then the Cradle could be the site where hominids evolved beyond their more ape-like features ...

The research team at the Atapuerca archaeological sites in Burgos, Spain, has just broken its own record by discovering ... left half of a hominid face from level TE7. This fossil was found ...

An expanding geographic range for these close Neandertal relatives leaves Denisovans' evolutionary status uncertain.

Which adaptations were likely present in the earliest hominoids? 1) A deficient fossil record. There are few Oligocene sites in Africa that represent the appropriate time period, and although ...

Your article on sabre teeth reminds me of a visit I made to a fossil site in South Africa. Using a hominid skull and two curved fingers, a researcher graphically illustrated how a sabre-toothed ...