Here are 10 major findings about human ancestors and our close ancient relatives that scientists announced in 2025. A handful ...

Around 850,000 years ago, a toddler was decapitated and cannibalized, cut marks on one of their neck bones suggest. The bone, which belonged to an archaic human relative, was found at the Gran Dolina ...

But some Neanderthal DNA helped modern humans survive and reproduce, and thus it has lingered in our genomes. Nowadays, ...

Ancient human relatives moved diverse stones over substantial distances, researchers report, revealing a surprisingly high degree of forward planning 600,000 years earlier than experts previously ...

This meant Lucy was a hominid—only humans and our close relatives in the human family habitually walk upright on the ground. A member of the species Australopithecus afarensis, which lived from 3.9 ...

(CNN) — Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same ...

(CNN) — Scientists say they have solved the mystery of the Burtele foot, a set of 3.4 million-year-old bones found in Ethiopia in 2009. The fossils, along with others unearthed more recently, have now ...

The human brain is a fascinating and complex organ that supports numerous sophisticated behaviors and abilities that are ...