Evolutionary biologist Huang Shi argues that lack of genetic diversity among East Asians suggests they are real ancestors of modern humans The long-held theory of human evolution says that modern ...

A fossil site of footprints in Kenya reveal a run-in of earlier hominins more than a million years before the rise of Homo ...

Dart was examining a set of fossils that had been unearthed by miners near the town of Taung in South Africa when he found ...

New research suggests that humans, new to the Americas, lived alongside giant ground sloths and mastodons for millennia.

Fossils show humans coexisted with giant sloths and mastodons for thousands of years. Evidence includes modified sloth bones ...

Smithsonian Magazine offers up a few other ancient creatures that could fit the bill, including Nile crocodiles, goannas, and ...

Lucy's species walked upright but lacked modern running abilities, revealing key evolutionary adaptations in humans.