In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...

The ancient skeleton known as “Little Foot” has long been a celebrity in paleoanthropology, but a new wave of research is pushing it into even more provocative territory. Instead of fitting neatly ...

A WORLD-FAMOUS fossil nicknamed “Little Foot” may actually belong to a new humanlike species. The fossil was previously thought to be a member of a genus called Australopithecus – but a fresh probe ...

A foot fossil found in Ethiopia belonged to an ancient human. The finding could knock one of the most famous names in human evolution from her spot on the family tree.

Another twist has been added to the puzzling mix that is early human ancestry with evidence that one of the most complete pre-human fossil skeletons we have found doesn’t belong to any recognized ...

Natural history is a difficult thing to conceptualize. You’ve got eons of undocumented progress, like the evolution of many species. Take, for example, the Australopithecus, an ancient great ape ...

Learn how a new analysis challenges the traditional classifications for ‘Little Foot,’ a famous fossil hominin from South Africa. Australopithecus prometheus or Australopithecus africanus? Though the ...

Fossils from a South African cave are 3.4 to 3.6m years old and walked the Earth at same time as east African relatives. Archaeologists in a structure above the entrance to Sterkfontein in 2005.

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