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 ...

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. On Oct. 20, Ryan ...

Humans enjoy the status of being at the top of the life cycle due to superior intelligence and way of life. However, it seems ...

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 ...

Family: Hominidae (modern humans and our close extinct relatives, such as Ardipithecus and ...

These ancient hominids, who disappeared 40,000 years ago, ... evidence of an extinct species of ancient human predecessors who walked the Earth between at least 400,000 and 40,000 years ago.

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 ...

First, let’s be clear. Scientists today call humans and our ancestors hominins. They call humans, chimps, orangutans and gorillas hominids. But hominids used to be a humans-only thing.

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

The genetic tweaks that make humans uniquely human may come in small parcels interspersed with DNA inherited from extinct ancestors and cousins. Only 1.5 percent to 7 percent of the collective ...