Koch Hall of Human Origins,” which opened 15 years ago. Smithsonian's Human Origins Program. What does it mean to be human ...

Learn more about how Paranthropus robustus lived 2 million years ago, an evolutionary cousin to humans.

The left hip and leg bones from a young female Paranthropus robustus discovered in South Africa show she was extremely short ...

Lucy helped change that. Today, the map of early human evolution is much more complicated, and Lucy is one of a panoply of human ancestors in a complex and bushy family tree stretching back some 7 ...

Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was also extremely small and ...

Today, Lucy is an important touchstone in human evolution because she lived 3.2 million years ago, evolutionarily halfway between our ape ancestors and us. But Lucy is just one of many famous ...

Donaldjohanson formed about 150 million years ago when a much larger asteroid broke apart. Since then, its orbit and spin ...

Toho Animation has shared a new trailer for Bellnox Films' The Darwin Incident anime series that will premier in 2026.

5. Named after a fossil: The mission is named after “Lucy”, the famous Ethiopian fossil of an early human ancestor, which helped scientists learn more about human evolution. Just like the ...

For a 40-cent entrance fee, the National Museum of Ethiopia has exhibitions on African art history and human evolution. A ...