Modern human faces are surprisingly delicate compared with the jutting jaws and broad noses of our closest extinct cousins.

The discovery of Kenyanthropus platyops in Kenya’s Lake Turkana region has forced scientists to rethink the human lineage.

March 21 -- A 3.5-million-year-old, flat-faced early human skull, which paleontologists found poking from the crumbling Kenyan earth, could push "Lucy" out of our ancestral family tree. For 20 years, ...