A 6 million-year-old creature that lacked sharp canines for fighting may be the first prehuman to have branched off from the ape line, researchers said Thursday. The short, small-brained creature may ...

Paleoanthropologists from the University of California, Berkeley, and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History have found more fossils of a nearly 6-million-year-old human ancestor first reported three ...

Hominid refers to the family of primates that includes all species on the “human ” side of the evolutionary tree after the split from chimpanzees.. Two reports on the extraordinary discovery appeared ...

A meticulous study of the ankle joint of this 4.4-million-year-old ancestor positions this species as a crucial link, bearing both primitive traits for climbing and early adaptations for upright ...

For a couple of geezers, the two rivals are really going at it. In one corner stands the official champion, Ardipithecus ramidus, discovered in 1994 in the barren Ethiopian badlands by ...

The region of Ethiopia called the Middle Awash, some 140 miles northeast of the capital of Addis Ababa, is a hot, harsh and inhospitable place-a rocky desert punctuated by tree-lined rivers, the ...

African fossils of one of our earliest ancestors, who lived about 4.5 million years ago, could help fill some of the gaps in early human evolution, researchers said Wednesday. The remains of ...

A 6 million-year-old creature that lacked sharp canine teeth for fighting may be the first pre-human to have branched off from the ape line, researchers said Thursday. The short, small-brained ...