In 1994, researchers in South Africa discovered a handful of small, human-like foot bones while sifting through an old box of ...
A new digital reconstruction of the face of an early Australopithecus specimen helps add details about the origins of our own ...
The latest fossil un-earthed from a human ancestral hot spot in Africa allows scientists to link together the most complete chain of human evolution so far. The 4.2 million-year-old fossil discovered ...
The Results Hint At Surprising Connections Among Early Human Relatives. In A Nutshell Scientists used a particle accelerator to digitally rebuild the face of “Little Foot,” a 3.67-million-year-old ...
Scientists used a particle accelerator to reconstruct the 3.7-million-year-old face of Little Foot, one of the most complete ...
A newly documented species, called Australopithecus sediba, was an upright walker that shared many physical traits with the earliest known Homo species -- and its introduction into the fossil record ...
As more and more fossil ancestors have been found, our genus has become more and more inclusive, incorporating more members that look less like us, Homo sapiens. By getting to know these other ...