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 that ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...

A jawbone fragment discovered in northern Spain could be the oldest known fossil of a human ancestor found to date in Europe. Until now, the oldest hominid fossil ...

In 2001, researchers unearthed a partial fossil leg bone and two forearm bones in the central African nation of Chad. Those fossils come from the earliest known hominid, which lived around 7 million ...

Several hominid species were consistently exposed to lead for almost two million years, which may have given modern humans a ...

LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, October 1, 2009—A Los Alamos National Laboratory geologist is part of an international research team responsible for discovering the oldest nearly intact skeleton of ...

Tim White, Berhane Asfaw, and Gen Suwa, who have long worked together unearthing and analyzing fossils in Africa, made a new and remarkable discovery in 1993. In Ethiopia, they found hominid skull, ...

The oldest hominid facial bones ever discovered in Western Europe have revealed that the region was initially inhabited by a ...