Fresh findings about arm and leg bones advance the debate over whether Sahelanthropus tchadensis was bipedal, but not ...

Lucy's position in the history of human evolution is currently being challenged. The Lucy fossil species, or Australopithecus ...

Australian researchers think the skeleton found in South Africa is not the same species as two found in the same South Africa cave system Little Foot, one of the world’s most complete hominin fossils, ...

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In 2004, archaeologists discovered a new species of ancient human, Homo floresiensis, on the Indonesian island of Flores. Nicknamed “the hobbit,” this three-foot-tall hominin lived between about ...

"This fossil remains one of the most important discoveries in the hominin record and its true identity is key to understanding our evolutionary past," Dr. Martin said. "We think it's demonstrably not ...

Nick Scroxton receives funding from the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland, and conducted this work while receiving funding from the Australian Research Council. Gerrit (Gert) van den Bergh ...

One of the most complete human ancestor fossils ever found could be an entirely new species, according to a new study. The fossil, found in South Africa’s Sterkfontein Caves in 1998 and dubbed “the ...

As reported by the Guardian on December 14, one of the world's most famous hominin fossils may be a previously unidentified species of human ancestor. Nicknamed "Little Foot," the skeleton was ...

Australopithecus prometheus or Australopithecus africanus? Though the question might sound simple, it isn't so straightforward for scientists, who have been stumped by the famous "Little Foot" fossil ...

Fifty years after a fossil skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis was unearthed in Ethiopia, we know so much more about how this iconic species lived and died. When you purchase through links on our ...

During the Japanese occupation of China in 1933, a man working on a bridge in the city of Harbin in the northeastern part of the country discovered a skull and immediately hid it from his Japanese ...