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

Australopithecus is an extinct group of ape-like modern human relatives—or potentially ancestors—that walked upright and ...

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.

An international study led by researchers from Australia's La Trobe University and the University of Cambridge has challenged ...

Learn how a new analysis challenges the traditional classifications for ‘Little Foot,’ a famous fossil hominin from South ...

(Reuters) - The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances such as increased brain size. But scientists have struggled to ...

Australian-led study suggests iconic South African skeleton differs from known Australopithecus species, media reports - ...

We celebrate the centenary of Nature’s announcement of the discovery of the Taung child, Australopithecus africanus, a discovery that confirmed Africa as humanity’s cradle and revolutionised our ...

Green, D., Gordon, A., and Richmond, Brian G. 2007. "Limb-size proportions in Australopithecus afarensis and Australopithecus africanus." Journal of Human Evolution ...

When paleoanthropologists finally freed the skeleton called Little Foot from its stone prison in South Africa, they believed ...

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 ...