This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

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

One of the most complete human ancestor fossils ever found may belong to an entirely new species, according to an ...

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

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

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 ...

Ethiopian researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery that fundamentally challenges our understanding of human evolution by uncovering fossil evidence of a previously unknown species that ...

Fred Spoor is at the Centre for Human Evolution Research, Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK, and in the Department of Human Origins, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, ...

Scientists say they have solved the mystery of the Burtele foot, a set of 3.4 million-year-old bones found in Ethiopia in 2009. The fossils, along with others unearthed more recently, have now been ...