Lucy’s discovery transformed our understanding of human origins. Don Johanson, who unearthed the Australopithecus afarensis ...

Their dream came spectacularly true on that momentous day in 1974. The Lucy fossil preserved skull fragments and a lower jaw with teeth, as well as parts of the arm, leg, pelvis, spine and ribs—47 ...

The history of human writing is being rewritten after archaeologists found the origins of words engraved on 6,000-year-old ...

Scientists say they've found the earliest known evidence of a human presence outside Africa. Stone tools discovered in China suggest primitive humans - or a close relative - were in the region as ...

Follow the progress of the research team as they realise they have found human footprints that are around 900,000 years old. Happisburgh (pronounced Haysborough) is one of the most important ...