A stash of 15 marine fossils has been found in a Neanderthal cave in northern Spain, indicating that the extinct hominids may ...

New standards for reconstructing extinct hominids could lead to more accurate representations, such as this sculpture of a 2.8-million-year-old Australopithecus africanus youngster known as the ...

Dazzling new scientific techniques are allowing archaeologists to track the movements and menus of extinct hominids through the seasons and years as they ate their way across the African landscape ...

Family: Hominidae (modern humans and our close extinct relatives, such as Ardipithecus and Australopithecus) Genus: Homo Species: sapiens ...

The genetic codes of people living in a region of the Pacific called Melanesia have given researchers a clue: their DNA suggests the presence of an extinct hominid ancestor.

Our ancient human ancestors may have put us on track toward meals a la Julia Child as long ago as 1.9 million years, according to new evidence that extinct hominids were cooking and processing ...

Our ancient human ancestors may have put us on track toward meals a la Julia Child as long ago as 1.9 million years, according to new evidence that extinct hominids were cooking and processing ...

To reflect these changes in our understanding of evolution, we now call humans, chimps, gorillas, orangutans (and our extinct ancestors) “hominids” for short; humans and our ancestors are ...

As more genomes are deciphered from Neandertals, Denisovans and other extinct hominids, researchers may discover that some of what now seems like uniquely human DNA was also carried by those ...

What were Neanderthals really like—and why did they go extinct? These ancient hominids, who disappeared 40,000 years ago, were once thought to be brutish. But recent discoveries have hinted they ...