Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels ...

Newly analyzed fossil skeleton of Mixodectes pungens reveals its tree-dwelling lifestyle, dietary habits, and ties to ...

A study finds that young female chimps build nests earlier and more often than males, showing early independence.

"This gets close to the hypothesized time of splitting of the ape and human lineages," said Dr. Alan Walker, an anatomist at Pennsylvania State University who specializes in early human studies.

Like living apes it would have walked quadrupedally (on ... leading paleoanthropologists to infer that these fossils represent early members of the hominin lineage. The first human-like traits ...

We share more than 97% of our genetic makeup with primates such as chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans. But that doesn’t ...