A 1.45-million-year-old hominid leg fossil sports previously unrecognized evidence of our ancient evolutionary relatives butchering and possibly eating one another, a new study claims. An ancient ...

Ancient human relatives crafted sharp-edged tools out of animal bones around 1.5 million years ago, researchers say. Discoveries at Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge, a famous East African fossil location, ...

Hominids include all great apes and humans, while hominins specifically cover humans and our closest extinct relatives. From Australopithecus to Homo erectus and beyond, this split explains why chimps ...