After toiling for decades on the edge of the Sahara, French researchers reported on Wednesday that they had found fossils of the oldest known member of the human family -- a chimp-size creature ...

Spanish archaeologists have named the oldest hominid ever found in Europe "Pink" after the legendary English rock band Pink Floyd. Remains of humankind's ancient ancestor, dating back 1.4 million ...

In July, "Turkana Boy" was showcased in Paris as part of Kenya's new tourism slogan: "Welcome Home." Discovered in 1984, Turkana Boy is the oldest complete hominid skeleton ever found, symbolizing ...

The wind-blown Djurab Desert of Chad has opened a new window on early human evolution – a hominid skull six to seven million years old, at least two million years older than any skull previously ...

A 1.45-million-year-old hominid leg fossil sports previously unrecognized evidence of our ancient evolutionary relatives butchering and possibly eating one another, a new study claims. An ancient ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest skeleton of a human ancestor—a small-brained, 110-pound female Ardipithecus ramidus, nicknamed Ardi. She lived in what is now Ethiopia 4.4 million years ago ...

In a far-reaching reordering of human evolution, researchers report today the discovery of the oldest hominid skeleton, a fairly complete 4.4-million-year-old female from Ethiopia 1.

In a related finding, Ward and her colleagues — including Tocheri — reported in 2014 that a roughly 1.42-million-year-old hominid finger fossil from East Africa pointed to an early emergence ...

The seven-million-year-old Sahelanthropus tchadensis skull, known as Toumai, viewed from different sides. Image: Didier Descouens/Wikicommons Ten years ago, an international group of ...

Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old hominid whose remains were discovered in Ethiopia on this day 41 years ago, is being celebrated in the form of a Google Doodle. She comes from the Australopithecus ...

The oldest-known hominid skeleton was a 4-foot-tall female who walked upright more than 4 million years ago and offers new clues to how humans may have evolved, scientists say.