Footage shows how researchers discovers fossil human footprints embedded in an ancient lakebed that show humans inhabited North America during the Last Glacial Maximum, in what is now New Mexico.

Fossils from a Moroccan cave have been dated with remarkable accuracy to about 773,000 years ago, thanks to a magnetic signature locked into the surrounding sediments. The hominin remains show a blend ...

Far below the waves, where sunlight never reaches, a fragment of bone has forced scientists to redraw parts of the human family tree. An ancient jaw dredged from the seafloor between China and Taiwan, ...

For a long time, scientists have puzzled over the origins of the human species. It is unclear from which common ancestor modern humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans all descend. According to earlier ...

Scientists say they have solved the mystery of the Burtele foot, a set of 3.4 million-year-old bones found in Ethiopia in 2009. The fossils, along with others unearthed more recently, have now been ...