A discovery made over half a century ago in Antelope Springs, Utah, continues to raise eyebrows in the scientific community. In 1968, amateur fossil hunter William J. Meister claimed to have found ...

Scientists have discovered an ancient relative of all living apes in northern Egypt, highlighting how the hunt for human ...

A fossil ape discovered in northern Egypt is reshaping the story of human evolution. The species, Masripithecus, lived about 17 to 18 million years ago and may sit very close to the ancestor of all ...

A recent study reveals we have a long-lost relative which hung out with our more famous apelike ancestors about three million years ago. It turns out the human family tree is more complicated than we ...

The droppings contain DNA, he thought, and perhaps, even after rain washes them away, some DNA might remain. And if it does ...

For a long time, scientists have puzzled over the origins of the human species. It is unclear from which common ancestor modern humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans all descend. According to earlier ...

Scientists say they have solved the mystery of the Burtele foot, a set of 3.4 million-year-old bones found in Ethiopia in 2009. The fossils, along with others unearthed more recently, have now been ...