A skeleton found in the Lake Turkana Basin area of northern Kenya is the most complete set of remains ever found of Homo ...

The legendary “Little Foot” fossil may be an entirely new human ancestor. An international team of scientists led by ...

One of the most complete human ancestor fossils ever found may belong to an entirely new species, according to an international research team. The famous “Little Foot” skeleton from South Africa has ...

‘Little Foot’ was almost certainly one species... until it wasn’t.

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2026年1月5日，国际顶级期刊《美国生物人类学杂志》刊发的一项研究，在古人类学界掀起轩然大波——由澳大利亚拉筹伯大学、英国剑桥大学联合多国学者组成的研究团队，通过对南非著名“小脚”化石（编号StW ...

Scientists studying fossils from Ethiopia’s Afar Rift have uncovered evidence of another early human species which lived around the same time as Lucy, roughly 3.4 million years ago. For nearly 50 ...

In recent decades, scientists have debated whether a seven-million-year-old fossil was bipedal—a trait that would make it the oldest human ancestor. A new analysis by a team of anthropologists offers ...

In recent decades, scientists have debated whether a seven-million-year-old fossil was bipedal—a trait that would make it the oldest human ancestor. A new analysis by a team of anthropologists offers ...

Scientists may have cracked the case of whether a seven-million-year-old fossil could walk upright. A new study found strong anatomical evidence that Sahelanthropus tchadensis was bipedal, including a ...

Everything old is new again: These paleontological discoveries of 2025 — from tiny dinosaurs to zombifying fungi — opened up brand-new insights into the distant past. Earth resonated with the song of ...

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