For decades, scientists could not agree on whether to classify the Dickinsonia as an animal or not — until this new study showed that it is actually the oldest known animal.

"Humans picked up some Neanderthal DNA through interbreeding, while the Neanderthal population, always fairly small, was ...

Jimmy Fallon took poked fun at Pete Davidson's dating history at the annual gala at the American Museum of Natural History on Dec. 1. Keep reading to find out what he said.

Scientists assembled the skeleton from 125 pieces. Lucy, also found in Africa, thrived a million years after Ardi and was of the more human-like genus Australopithecus.

But the new find is perhaps most astonishing for its state of preservation. “These are arguably the most complete hominid skeletons ever discovered,” says Berger. In the field of human origins ...

Before 'Lucy,' there was 'Ardi': Oldest hominid skeleton provides new evidence for human evolution (w/ Video) In a special issue of Science, an international team of scientists has for the first ...

Reaction From 'Lucy's' DiscovererRobert Siegel talks about the discovery in Chad with Donald Johanson, founder of the Institute of Human Origins in Berkeley, Calif. Dr. Johanson is the ...

Some of the earliest human fossils, including Lucy, a 3.2-million-year-old hominid skeleton, have been discovered there. The country also has a rich political history.

Lucy, our earliest recorded ancestor, had the musculature to stand and walk erect, according to the first digital reconstruction of her lower musculature.

Lucy's fossilized skeleton is thought to be between 3 million and 4 million years old and was hailed by experts as the earliest hominid ever discovered.

They described the partial skeleton of a female representative of Ardipithecus ramidus. The hominid species lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia.

"Isn't the Lucy exhibit incredible," Fallon said of the famed hominid skeleton at the museum. "All we know for sure is that it's a 3.2-million-year-old skeleton, she was under four feet tall and ...