Ardi is also providing insights into ancient hominid behavior. Moving from the trees to the ground meant that hominids became easier prey. Those that were better at cooperating could live in ...

They may have foraged on two legs and rested or hid up in the trees. In July, South African paleontologists reported finding "a locomotor missing link" in the hominid fossil record. The foot bones ...

And this list is getting longer. As scientists discover new fossils, the hominid family tree grows new branches. But fossils are often difficult to categorize neatly as one species or another.

Scientists have uncovered a hominid skull, nicknamed “Dragon Head ... researchers uncover its place in the human evolutionary tree like never before. This discovery challenges the traditional ...

The area is known as the Cradle of Humankind. Scientists have identified at least four hominid species—in addition to our own, Homo sapiens—that lived in this region at various times over the ...