Hominid footprints found on Crete date back 5.6 million years, making them by far the oldest ever discovered in Europe.

In Ethiopia, they found hominid skull, jaw, and arm bones plus a few teeth that dated back to 4.4 million years ago. That would make these the oldest hominid ancestors yet identified, and the most ...

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.

Erin Wayman is a science and human evolution blogger for Hominid Hunting. She has M.As in biological anthropology and science writing. The "discovery" turned out to be the biggest hoax in the ...