A new study has revealed that Africa may not have been the birthplace of humans. In fact the study proves that Eurasia had ancestors long before we thought.

Changing climate conditions have been known to foster human evolution throughout history, especially in Africa, where our story first unfolded. However, new research has flipped the script on a common ...

Turns out Toby’s new trick is thousands of years old. A pair of recently discovered fossils from Africa has immortalized a small critter’s 126,000-year-old butt-dragging habit, according to ...

Mandible of a hunter-gatherer woman who lived 7900 years ago at Matjes River Rockshelter in the Western Cape, South Africa, for whom a genome was reconstructed. In one of the largest African ...

Little Foot” is the most complete Australopithecus fossil ever found. And now we finally have an idea of what this group of ...

Ancient DNA is finally putting hard numbers on a mystery that has trailed humanity for millennia: when our most familiar feline companions first stepped out of Africa and into homes, ships and cities ...