This world-famous fossil is now on display in Abu Dhabi, allowing visitors to see up close one of the most important finds in ...

A fossilized foot found in the dusty sediments of northern Ethiopia has reopened one of paleoanthropology’s most ...

A single ancient jawbone is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about humanity’s forgotten relatives.

“Hundreds of fossils representing over a dozen species of Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, and Homo had been found in the Afar region of northern Ethiopia,” Alemseged said, “so the apparent absence of ...

But this latest discovery seems to challenge that. It appears that Paranthropus had greater dietary flexibility than first interpreted, could adapt to a wide range of environmental conditions and was ...

The newly described specimen is a partial left mandible plus a molar crown, dated to about 2.6 million years ago using multiple methods, making it one of the oldest Paranthropus fossils known. The ...

3-D model of a modern human ear (left) and a Neanderthal ear (right) The advent of spoken language was one of the key developments in human evolution, but for speech to have meaning, it has to be ...

In 1998, a unique fossil was discovered in South Africa’s Sterkfontein Caves, a site long associated with discoveries of interest to paleoanthropologists. The specimen, nicknamed “Little Foot,” was ...

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The fossil, found in South Africa's Sterkfontein Caves in 1998 and dubbed "Little Foot," has been widely believed to be a member of the Australopithecus genus, a lineage of ape-like upright walkers ...

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 ...