A new digital reconstruction of the face of an early Australopithecus specimen helps add details about the origins of our own ...

Little Foot is a nearly complete ancient skeleton found in the Sterkfontein caves in South Africa that could change how scientists think about human evolution. For a long time, researchers thought it ...

Paleoanthropologists have announced the world's most complete skeleton of Homo habilis, a human ancestor that lived more than 2 million years ago in northern Kenya. The collection of fossil bones has ...

Back in 1929, archaeologists unearthed several human skeletons (seven adults and three children) while excavating Skuhl Cave just south of Haifa, Israel. Dating back 140,000 years to the end of the ...

A prehistoric human skeleton has been unearthed within an intricate underwater cave system off Mexico’s Caribbean coast, an area submerged since the close of the last ice age some 8,000 years ago.