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

The reptile was named Crocodylus lucivenator, meaning “Lucy’s hunter.” The name references Lucy, one of the most famous early ...

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

Over three million years ago, the wetlands of ancient Ethiopia were dominated by an ambush predator that dwarfed early human ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Handaxe from the Boxgrove paleosol horizon (locality Q2/GTP 17). (CREDIT: Science Advances) The earliest hominins in Europe shared ...

OUR early human ancestors faced a life-threatening monster lurking in rivers and lakes. Scientists have uncovered evidence of a giant mega-croc beast that measured up to a whooping 15 feet in ...

A new study has revealed that Africa may not have been the birthplace of humans. In fact the study proves that Eurasia had ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago. The ...

According to a statement released by the University of Tübingen, an international team of researchers who evaluated a fossil ...

As we wait for the Alisera to arrive, White explains that the team returns to this hostile spot year after year because it’s the only place in the world to yield fossils that span such a long stretch ...