People in the developed world today are taller and more robust than their great-great-grandparents ever imagined, and not just because of better medicine, a researcher says.
Join scientists at the site where they unearthed "Lucy's baby," and learn how they discovered the oldest and most complete human ancestor child ever found.
A 3.3-million-year-old fossil toddler—the world's oldest known child—has been discovered almost completely intact in Ethiopia. Experts say the find will provide fascinating new clues about our early ancestors.
Beginning about 700,000 years ago, ancient humans were driven off the British Isles seven times by the approach of cold weather, according to new archaeological evidence.
The latest analysis of fossils from the Indonesian island of Flores suggests that the tiny people are related to a pygmy population living on the island today.
Stacked like well-trod carpets, layers of mud from an ancient wetland have preserved the world's largest collection of ancient human fossil footprints.
Invading Anglo-Saxons some 1,600 years ago used segregation and social hierarchy to nearly wipe out the culture and gene pool of native Britons, a new report says.
Teeth and jaw fossils discovered in Ethiopia provide a link between two species of early human ancestors, filling a crucial gap in human evolution, scientists have announced.
Genome researchers have identified more than 700 regions in human DNA where apparently strong selection has occurred, driving the spread of genes linked to traits from bone structure to skin color.
It may be a threat to humans' long-term future on the planet, but climate change may have helped bring us into being in the first place, some scientists say.
