A 1.4 million-year-old fossil jaw belongs to a previously unknown human relative from southern Africa, a new study finds. The ...

The new study revealed that the ancient jaw named SK 15 was originally unearthed in 1949 in a South African cave known as ...

Dr. Baumann and his colleagues hypothesize that ancient humans may have hunted and killed more animals than they could consume, thereby increasing the availability of carrion. At first, this may have ...

Remarkable social behaviors have been discovered in Kinda baboons (Papio kindae) that set them apart from other baboon ...

Looking ahead, the research team plans to expand their investigation by collecting data from different early human species and time periods across eastern and southern Africa, as well as southeast ...

More than a million years ago, long before our species Homo sapiens emerged, early humans adapted to desert-like conditions. Kaplan was a co-author of the findings published Thursday in the ...

Mount Sinai researchers working as part of an international team have discovered previously unknown breastfeeding patterns of an extinct early human species by studying their 2-million-year-old ...

Some of our species’ earliest ancestors may have ... mammals from Sterkfontein and modern African mammals, the early humans appear to have had a variable diet, but not one rich in mammalian ...

More than three million years after her death, the early human ancestor known as Lucy is still divulging her secrets. In 2016, an autopsy indicated that the female Australopithecus afarensis, whose ...

"Early humans, more than 30,000 years ago ... From today's perspective, it is difficult to understand how the different species influenced one another. To find out more, the researchers used ...

A newly classified Paranthropus species, P. capensis, has been identified from a 1.4 million-year-old jawbone.

The other species, which was also walking upright ... Rather, there may have been a variety of ways that early humans learned to walk, run, stumble and slide on prehistoric muddy slopes.