Dive into the fascinating world of Australopithecus, the first known upright ancestor of humans, exploring their habitat, lifestyle, and evolutionary impact. Dementia risk may be linked to seemingly ...

What did the face of our ancestors look like three million years ago? Our international team has answered this question by virtually reconstructing the facial fragments of Little Foot, the most ...

What did the face of our ancestors look like 3 million years ago? Meet the reconstructed face of “Little Foot” – the most complete biological Australopithecus specimen that ever existed. The search ...

“Little Foot” is the most complete Australopithecus fossil ever found. And now we finally have an idea of what this group of ancient hominins looked like Little Foot’s face, however, has long eluded ...

In 1998, researchers discovered one of the most complete known human ancestral fossils in South Africa’s Sterkfontein Caves. Almost two decades later, Ronald Clarke, the paleoanthropologist who had ...

On a hot day in 1924, a young Australian anatomist named Raymond Dart was sitting at his desk, steadily chipping away at a piece of rock. Gradually, as Dart worked, a tiny fossilized skull emerged ...

WASHINGTON, Nov 28 (Reuters) - Scientists have solved the mystery of 3.4 million-year-old fossils called the "Burtele Foot" discovered in Ethiopia in 2009, finding they belonged to an enigmatic human ...

Australopithecus anamensis has been at the center of a number of scientific debates. This is a diary series in which we take a closer look at hominins, fossil ancestors of the human family.

Fossilized teeth from early humans and a new Australopithecus species, discovered in Ethiopia, are providing new insights into human evolution. In this video, scientists from Arizona State ...

Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same place ...

Researchers working in northeastern Ethiopia have discovered remains of a previously unknown branch of humanity. The fossils, which include teeth that date to between 2.8 million and 2.6 million years ...