Bipedalism is seen as a crucial milestone in our evolutionary history, distinguishing our ancestors from other species that eventually went extinct or diverged into modern chimps.

Sometime between 200,000 and 160,000 years ago, a group of early hominids who lived in what is now northern China were pursuing their next meal. They were skilled, organised hunters, having ...

A stash of 15 marine fossils has been found in a Neanderthal cave in northern Spain, indicating that the extinct hominids may have developed a passion for accumulating stuff in the same way that ...

While we’ve lasted hundreds of thousands of years, there was a good chance that 800,000 years ago, humans could have become extinct. According to immunologist Professor Luke O’Neill, roughly ...

New research studies the inner ear canals of two ancient apes and concludes that they are part of the hominid family, helping us understand ape-human evolution.

In ‘The Naked Neanderthal,’ Ludovic Slimak claims that those early hominids were ‘never other versions of us’ The paleoanthropologist argues that the Neanderthal was ‘an utterly ...

The Heidelberg People were the first recorded proper hominids to build homes and hunt big game, but they became extinct before the end of the last Ice Age.

American paleoanthropologist Briana Pobiner is an expert in studying the diet of extinct hominids. One day, as she looked for traces of animal bites on a fossil tibia from 1.45 million years ago, she ...

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 ...

Extinct early hominids may have been making tools before humans A toolkit has been found along the shores of Africa’s Lake Victoria, dating from around 300,000 years earlier than similar human ...

Using a new equation based on today’s primates, scientists can take a few molar teeth from an extinct fossil species and reconstruct exactly how fast their offspring grew during gestation. Stone ...