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New research shows that ancient humans, Australopithecus, had a plant-based diet, challenging long-held meat-eating theories.

Hominid footprints found on Crete date back 5.6 million years, making them by far the oldest ever discovered in Europe.

Studying primate characteristics requires access to their skeletons, which can be costly and cause wear and tear to the ...

A research team, led by Ohio University’s Sabrina Curran, has discovered evidence that human ancestors arrived in Europe ...

A newly classified Paranthropus species, P. capensis, has been identified from a 1.4 million-year-old jawbone.

Researchers have extracted ancient proteins from australopithecine fossils and determined whether they were male or female — a first for human evolution studies.

About 19,000 years ago, a woman from a group of hunter-gatherers died and was buried in a cave in northern Spain. In 1996, ...

The international scientific community rebuffed this hypothesis. They were looking outside Africa for human origins and ...

A paleontologist journeys through Indonesia’s Riau Archipelago in search of our earliest ancestors, and uncovers how ...

"Lucy's skeletal remains will be displayed in Europe for the first time ever," Fiala said. The exhibition will also feature ...