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 ...

Hawaii County officials have decided, after consulting with an engineer, that it would be more prudent to reconstruct the pedestrian bridge between Waiakea Peninsula and Moku‘ola (Coconut Island) than ...

A federal lab aims to make the process of threat emulation more efficient, so that security teams can more quickly test whether their systems are proof against the latest attacks. An AI-based system, ...

New burial dating techniques applied to South African cave sediments reveal that Australopithecus fossils are far older than previously believed. The revised dates reshape early human evolution and ...

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 ...

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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 ...

When Lindsey Vonn announced her comeback to ski racing a year ago, she was attempting something that had never been done in the history of her sport. Not only was the American star 40 years old at the ...

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 ...

In the latest twist in human evolution, scientists have discovered that a mysterious foot found in Ethiopia belonged to a previously unknown ancient relative. Dated to around 3.4 million years ago, ...