Human fossils

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Researchers once thought humans couldn't have migrated down from Siberia into North America during the last ice age. New findings suggest otherwise.

The earth doesn't give up its secrets easily—not even in the "Cradle of Humankind" in South Africa, where a wealth of fossils relating to human evolution have been found.

A partial skull from China represents the earliest human with a “modern” brain size. It could represent an unknown group of ancient humans, or perhaps one of the enigmatic Denisovans

In the 150 years since Charles Darwin speculated that humans originated in Africa, the number of species in the human family tree has exploded, but so has the level of dispute concerning early human evolution. Fossil apes are often at the center of the debate, with some scientists dismissing their importance to the origins of the human lineage (the "hominins"), and others conferring them starring evolutionary roles. A new review out on May 7 in the journal Science looks at the major…

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A mysterious ancient relative of humanity known as Little Foot apparently roamed the Earth at about the same time as the famed Lucy, suggesting a diversity of human ancestors across Africa.

A huge, flying reptile that weighed as much as several adult humans combined and had the wingspan of a small plane soared over Alberta during the Age of Dinosaurs. Now, it’s been identified as a new species.

The partial foot fossil indicates a creature that walked upright but that still had an opposable toe, which made it good at climbing trees. Learn more here.

La main moderne, capable de manipulation de précision, serait apparue il y a 1,84 million d’années comme en témoigne une phalange découverte en Tanzanie. Mais à quel hominidé appartenait-elle ?

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New proof has emerged attesting to the complexities of human evolution. A new branch of the hominin family tree has been discovered at Callao Cave on the

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Australopithecus afarensis Johanson & White, 1978 - fossil hominid from the Pliocene of eastern Africa. (replica of AL 288-1 (National Museum of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) on public display, Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland, Ohio, USA) Hominids are humans. Fossils of the human family are known back to the Miocene, with many species known from Pliocene and Pleistocene sedimentary rocks. Only one species in Family Hominidae is alive today, in the late Holocene - that's…

Cave excavation of a youngster’s grave pushes back the date of the first human burial identified in the continent by at least a few thousand years.

A recent fossil discovery in the Mackenzie Mountains, NWT may change how we consider animal evolution.

A controversial bone discovery suggests we lived alongside a primitive species of human – and may have cannibalised them

A 1.8-million-year old human skull unearthed in Dmanisi, Georgia, is the most complete Homo skull ever found. It suggests only one species of homo erectus.