A 4.4-million-year-old Ardipithecus fossil named "Ardi" shows early humans walked upright, keeping ape-like climbing ...

Learn more about Ardipithecus ramidus and how their ankle bone paints a better picture of how our ancestors transitioned from ...

Analysis of a 4.4-million-year-old ankle bone supports the hypothesis that the earliest humans evolved from an ape-like ...

And It Demands Our Compassion. My New Year’s celebration this year was perhaps the most unusual yet deeply meaningful one I ...

For more than a century, scientists have been piecing together the puzzle of human evolution, examining fossil evidence to ...

Hand fossils unearthed in Kenya reveal that an extinct human relative called Paranthropus boisei had unexpected dexterity and ...

New research out of the University of California San Diego and the University of Haifa is reshaping what we know about ancient seaborne trade in the eastern Mediterranean. Published recently in ...

Feven Melese is trying to support thousands of abandoned dogs on the streets of Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa. The ...

Our robust Paranthropus cousins thrived in Africa for a million and a half years, making stone tools and sharing the ...

In her humble home on the red soil of the Green Kalahari, 92-year-old Katrina Esau listened intently as her two ...

African governments and other local actors have a crucial role to play in shaping the activities of Chinese firms.

Analysis - For most of the past 25 years, Chinese construction companies operating in Africa could count on generous financial backing from Chinese banks. Between 2000 and 2019, Chinese funders ...