One of the most startling discoveries in the study of human origins -- the uncovering of a vanished species of dwarf proto-humans who inhabited a Pacific island just 18,000 years ago -- is being ...

Many anthropologists suspect that hominids, ancient members of the human evolutionary family, branched into as many as 20 different now-extinct species over roughly the past 6 million years. At ...

Hominid teeth hold clues to our evolutionary history. Learn how fossilized teeth reshape our understanding of human origins and the complexity of our family tree. Probing the origins of humanity is ...

LOS ANGELES — After examining the fossils of two hominids that lived nearly 2 million years ago, anthropologists said that the anatomical features of the adult female and young male strongly suggest ...

The 3.3-million-year-old fossils of an Australopithecus afarensis child from Dikika, Ethiopia, suggest the hominid climbed trees. The individual’s right shoulder blade (side view) is visible beneath ...

In “Hominid roots may go back to Europe” (SN: 6/24/17, p. 9), Bruce Bower reported that the teeth of Graecopithecus, a chimp-sized primate that lived in southeastern Europe 7 million years ago, ...

Her last living act is a familiar one: She reaches out with her hands to break her fall before hitting the unforgiving earth. Bones shattered, she dies alone. Some researchers say they now know how ...