Analysis of a perfect jawbone found in Taiwan has given us new clues to the Denisovans, an enigmatic people with whom our ...

This meant Lucy was a hominid—only humans and our close relatives in the human family habitually walk upright on the ground. A member of the species Australopithecus afarensis, which lived from ...

And this list is getting longer. As scientists discover new fossils, the hominid family tree grows new branches. But fossils are often difficult to categorize neatly as one species or another.

Uncover the groundbreaking discovery of the “Dragon Head” hominid skull in China, a find that challenges the long-standing Out of Africa theory! This fascinating fossil, dating back ...

Mary went out to work as usual. That day, she found fossilized parts of the upper teeth and skull of a hominid no one had recorded before, eroding out of an area near Bed I. In the next three ...

The area is known as the Cradle of Humankind. Scientists have identified at least four hominid species—in addition to our own, Homo sapiens—that lived in this region at various times over the ...