Explore the challenges scientists face when classifying hominid fossils by using this database to classify your own collection of 10 mystery fossils. Identify your fossils by comparing their features ...

A team of paleontologists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, working with colleagues from Xi'an Jiaotong University, the University of York, the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and the ...

Scientists are constantly learning about our history as a species. Sometimes, these new discoveries change everything we think about a specific population. IScientists found DNA not linked to any ...

In 2003, when fossil remains were uncovered in Liang Bua Cave on the Indonesian island of Flores, the discoverers dubbed the remains Homo floresiensis, a new hominid species. But in a new study, ...

Lucy’s kind had small, chimplike brains that, nevertheless, grew at a slow, humanlike pace. This discovery, reported April 1 in Science Advances, shows for the first time that prolonged brain growth ...

Many known hominin fossils defy species classification, with the most famous example being the ever-enigmatic Denisovans. A new study by anthropologists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the ...

Purdue's Darryl Granger and Marc Caffee have determined the age of a fossilized skeleton thought to be an Australopithecus – a genus of African hominids from which humanity is thought to have ...

Fossil find sheds light on the transition to Homo genus from earlier hominids These new fossils, however, represent a hominid that appeared approximately one million years later than Lucy, and their ...

The history of anthropology is littered with many now-defunct hominid species that no longer have a place on the human family tree Erin Wayman The Smithsonian Institution’s Human Origins Initiative ...

Fossils unearthed from an Ethiopian site not far from where the famous hominid Ardi’s partial skeleton was found suggest that her species was evolving different ways of walking upright more than 4 ...

LOS ANGELES - DNA from a 40,000-year-old pinkie finger, belonging to a child and found in a cave in Siberia, indicates that it is from a previously unknown family of human relatives that lived among ...

In life, the creature probably resembled a chimpanzee more than anything else. It moved through a lakeside landscape of grasslands and forest searching for food, accompanied by small bands of its ...