This week, meet a big-brained ancient human relative, hear a meteorite as it lands on Earth, spot a tiny kangaroo-like marsupial, and more.

It's time to rewrite the history textbooks, as a distant new member of our ancestral family tree has been discovered. Scientists say a new, never-before seen species of human ancestor roamed the ...

More than three million years after her death, the early human ancestor known as Lucy is still divulging her secrets. In 2016, an autopsy indicated that the female Australopithecus afarensis, whose ...

New research provides the first direct evidence that Australopithecus, an important early human ancestor that displayed ... included browsing for fruits, tree leaves and certain flowering plants ...

This may have included browsing for fruits, tree leaves and certain flowering ... an important early human ancestor that displayed a mix of ape-like and human-like traits, consumed very little ...

The 3.18-million-year-old remains of Lucy, one of the oldest human ancestors, will be displayed in Europe for the first time ever.