The research team at the Atapuerca archaeological sites in Burgos, Spain, has just broken its own record by discovering, for ...

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The excavation of bone tools at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania expands the range of ancient hominids’ cultural innovations.

Around 100,000 years ago, a group of Homo sapiens-like humans buried five of their dead at Timshenet cave, along with grave ...

Traditionally, only human ancestors were placed in the family Hominidae (and thereby referred to as hominids). This reflected a view that humans are substantially different from the great apes ...

It’s possible, though, that Danuvius independently evolved a form of upright walking on tree branches that had nothing to do with the appearance of a two-legged gait in hominids, says DeSilva ...

As the African landscape shifted gradually from dense forests toward large patches of savannah, early hominids found their food supplies waning, leading them to descend from the trees and become ...

His legs were relatively long in proportion to his body compared to earlier hominids like Lucy. With his tall, slender build, he was well adapted to staying cool in hot, dry climates. His ribcage ...

If you look up land reform in South Africa in an atlas, you will see a picture of a Neanderthal armed with a wooden club dispersing a family of brachiosauruses so that he might build a rudimentary ...