See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Fifty years ago, a remarkable fossil was unearthed in the Afar Rift ...

Lucy, the famous Australopithecus afarensis fossil, still reshapes how scientists explain human evolution nearly 50 years ...

In this 4.4-million-year-old skeleton, scientists may have found the missing step between climbing and walking.

A cutting-edge analysis of the teeth from Homo naledi skeletons in a South African cave system found no males within the ...

A nearly complete skeleton from South Africa’s Sterkfontein Caves, known as Little Foot, may represent a distinct branch of ...

The image in question is genuine and features a gibbon, a primate known as a "lesser ape." Humans are also considered primates but belong to a subset of species known as the "greater apes." Living ...

Human remains have been increasingly studied using interdisciplinary approaches. These have enabled researchers to ...

Before the evolution of legs from fins, the axial skeleton—including the bones of the head, neck, back and ribs—was already going through changes that would eventually help our ancestors support their ...

"This book arises out of a joint meeting between the Centre for Ecology and Evolution (CEE), University College of London (UCL), and the Linnean Society, held in the meeting rooms of the Linnean ...