Learn how a 2.6-million-year-old Paranthropus jaw from Ethiopia’s Afar region is reshaping scientists’ understanding of early ...

Dust and sun define field seasons in East Turkana. So do patience and sharp eyes. In northern Kenya, a set of bones pulled from the ground has now changed what scientists can say about one of your ...

Our species, Homo sapiens, has been evolving for more than 300,000 years, but the story of human origins starts much earlier.

Modern humans are the latest in a long line of creatures belonging to the Homo genus, although until now we knew relatively ...

Learn about the most complete Homo habilis fossil ever found, and how this fossil is changing what we know about human ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little Foot,” fossil an exquisitely preserved hominin found in South Africa’s ...