Back in 1974, scientists discovered 40 percent of a single hominin skeleton known as Lucy at the Hadar site in Ethiopia, ...

Several SDSU students are embarking on a week-long research expedition to the Channel Islands with the goal of potentially ...

Researchers found that ancient hominids—including early humans—were exposed to lead throughout childhood, leaving chemical ...

More than a million years ago, early human relatives crossed an enormous sea to reach the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The discovery pushes back the record of human migration in Southeast Asia and ...

Humans reached, settled, and thrived on Mindoro far earlier than most scientific timelines for allow for the evolution of ...

New clues about our earliest ancestors suggest they may have reached Eurasia sooner than scientists once thought. Fossils found in Romania hint that hominins left Africa nearly two million years ...

Meanwhile, early dog trade might stretch even further back than the new studies indicate. To find remains from the first ...

A group of San Diego State University students are embarking on a week-long research expedition to the Channel Islands off ...

Newly discovered fossils in Ethiopia show that Homo coexisted with Australopithecus 2.6 million years ago, rewriting the timeline of human evolution. Far from a straight line, early human history was ...

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...

Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than six miles away from where they were found in southwestern Kenya. In southwestern Kenya more than 2.6 million years ago, ...