A recent study reveals we have a long-lost relative which hung out with our more famous apelike ancestors about three million years ago. It turns out the human family tree is more complicated than we ...

Ancient human skull fossils (stock image). A human skull found in 1990 is now changing scientists' understanding of human evolution. In a study published in the journal Science on Sept. 25, ...

The terms hominid and hominin are often used interchangeably, but they do not mean the same thing. Hominids include all great ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new reconstruction (center) of the crushed Yunxian 2 skull (right) found in China is seen with another squashed skull (left) ...

A badly crushed cranium unearthed decades ago from a riverbank in central China that once defied classification is now shaking up the human family tree, according to a new analysis.Related video above ...