An analysis by Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany, on the manual capabilities of early hominins reveals that some ...

One of the 20th-century's biggest quests was to find the “missing link,” a being who connected humans to their pre-historic ...

Their dream came spectacularly true on that momentous day in 1974. The Lucy fossil preserved skull fragments and a lower jaw ...

The oldest stone tools ever discovered were unearthed in Kenya by a group of scientists at the Lomekwi 3 site. The stone ...

After all, the region had also been home to several earlier members of our family tree, including celebrity fossil Lucy (the most famous example of Australopithecus afarensis, which lived around three ...