When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A series of lower jaws from North Africa demonstrates variation among hominin fossils. The jaw on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. All life on Earth can be traced back to a last universal common ancestor (LUCA) that evolved some 4.2 billion years ago. While the ...

The discovery of a never-before-seen bump on the leg bone of a 7 million-year-old fossil ape shows it walked upright on two legs while it was on the ground, a new study finds. Only members of the ...

Ardi is the oldest known partial skeleton of a hominin and shows foot features that are transitioning from vertical climbing to bipedal walking. While Ardi has the primitive grasping big toe of the ...

Little Foot, a 3.67 million-year-old human ancestor, is getting a digital facial reconstruction after her skull was crushed in a cave.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: “While the last universal common ancestor is the most ancient organism we can study with evolutionary methods,” Aaron Goldman, lead author of the ...