Discovered in Portugal in 1998, the individual dubbed the “Lapedo Child” has long perplexed scientists, thanks to a curious mix of features ...

Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels ...

The first two skeletons removed from the pit were a young ... is in a region already so famous for its ancient human fossils that it is often referred to as the Cradle of Humankind.

Because her skeleton was so complete, Lucy gave us an unprecedented picture of her kind. In 1974, Lucy showed that human ancestors were up and walking around long before the earliest stone tools ...

He found the skull of a six year old creature with an ape-like appearance but human characteristics ... In 1997 an Australopithecus skull and skeleton was found in a cave in Sterkfontein north ...

Bones from the most complete of four individuals represented by the new finds cover about 15 percent of that creature’s skeleton ... preceded the great ape/human split and likely started ...

Ardi is a female human-like fossilised skeleton that dates from 4.4 million ... but possessed a relatively small ape-like skull. Lucy's foot bones show that she had similar feet to modern humans ...

The fossil record, along with studies of human and ape DNA, indicate that humans shared a common ancestor with chimpanzees and bonobos sometime around 6 million years ago (mya). We begin this ...

Walking and running upright on two feet as humans do requires some specialized adaptations of the skeleton and muscles. Modern human anatomy has built on the strengths and the weaknesses of a body ...

Further DNA analysis of Naia's skeleton shows an even more astonishing find. Naia is directly related to 11,000-year-old graves excavated by anthropologists and archaeologists in Alaska.