Learn how a new analysis challenges the traditional classifications for ‘Little Foot,’ a famous fossil hominin from South ...

When paleoanthropologists finally freed the skeleton called Little Foot from its stone prison in South Africa, they believed ...

An international study led by researchers from Australia's La Trobe University and the University of Cambridge has challenged ...

Australopithecus is an extinct group of ape-like modern human relatives—or potentially ancestors—that walked upright and ...

Australian researchers think the skeleton found in South Africa is not the same species as two found in the same South Africa cave system ...

New fossils link a strange 3.4-million-year-old foot to Australopithecus deyiremeda, a species that mixed climbing skills ...

When studying how fossil hominids moved, researchers usually analyze the morphology of bones—which is crucial for ...

Specimen found in South Africa was widely thought to be member of ape-like human ancestor family that lived nearly 2 million ...

Newfound fossils in modern-day Ethiopia suggest that the mysterious foot belonged to a recently named species, Australopithecus deyiremeda. The finding could alter the story of human evolution ...

(Reuters) - The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances such as increased brain size. But scientists have struggled to ...

New Australopithecus fossils found in Ethiopia are changing the human family tree. While Australopithecus afarensis has long been considered an ancestor of all later human species, including our own, ...

Humans are fundamentally technological creatures. We depend on the manufacture and use of tools for our survival to a degree qualitatively greater than any other species. Therefore, an understanding ...