Tagged With Human Ancestor

Anthropologists have found the oldest skull of one of our earliest human ancestors. The 3.8 million-year-old fossil changes our understanding of human history.

Aylin Woodward

A handful of recent discoveries has transformed our entire understanding of human history

Kevin Loria

This incredible animation shows how humans evolved from early life

Rob Ludacer

5 useless body parts humans have that are left over from evolution

Rob Ludacer, Jessica Orwig

300,000-year-old skulls that look shockingly like us could rewrite the human origin story

Erin Brodwin

Archaeologists are fuming over a new study that claims the iconic early human ancestor Lucy died of falling from a tree

Erin Brodwin

Google's doodle is dedicated to one of anthropology's greatest discoveries

Tanya Lewis

Scientists just discovered humans share most of their DNA with this creepy ocean worm

Monica Manalo

Scientists are raising important questions about the discovery of a new human ancestor

Kevin Loria

2 hikers crawled through an impossibly tiny cave and discovered a new human ancestor that defies everything scientists know about evolution

Tanya Lewis