New burial dating techniques applied to South African cave sediments reveal that Australopithecus fossils are far older than ...

A fossilized foot discovered in Ethiopia and left unclassified for over a decade has now been linked to a little-known human ...

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 ...

A seven-million-year-old fossil may mark the moment our ancestors first stood up and walked.

An international research team has announced the most complete fossil yet of Homo habilis (aka 'the handy man') – one of the ...

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The classification of one of the most complete human ancestor fossils ever discovered, the skeleton known as Little Foot, has been called into question by an international research team led from La ...

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A REPLICA of the remains of a more than 3-million-year-old female hominid known as "Lucy" at the National Museum in Addis Ababa August 7, 2007. (photo credit: REUTERS/Barry Malone) Scientists studying ...

An international research team has unveiled a significant discovery in human paleontology: an exceptionally well-preserved ...

An international research team led by scientists from La Trobe University in Australia and the University of Cambridge is questioning how one of the ...