A foot fossil found in Ethiopia belonged to an ancient human. The finding could knock one of the most famous names in human evolution from her spot on the family tree.

They came up a little short. A small archaic hominid known as the “hobbit” might have died out around 50,000 years ago after ...

A new pterosaur species was recently discovered in the vomit of a dino. But that's just the start of revelations from ...

About 50,000 years ago, humanity lost one of its last surviving hominin cousins, Homo floresiensis (also known as “the hobbit ...

The human evolutionary tree can be complicated—but understanding where hominids end and hominins begin reveals how we fit ...

Hunting an entire herd of aurochs was no mean feat, and would have required sophisticated levels of cooperation and ...

Forensic evaluation can be applied to bodies that are long dead and poorly preserved. Dental records, DNA analysis, and ...

Newly identified bones tie the mysterious Burtele foot to a new Australopithecus species that lived alongside Lucy more than ...

New research shows that domestic dogs began diversifying at least 11,000 years ago, long before modern breeding. A major ...

New research suggests that kissing probably predates humanity and evolved between 16.9 million and 21.5 million years ago, after the ancestor of the great apes split from the lesser apes, or gibbons.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Humans are the most successful predator on the planet and stand sentinel at the spearhead of the planetary food chain, but this was not an achievement that came easy. Mankind’s ancestors had to fight ...