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 ...
Its discoverer, paleoanthropologist Ronald Clarke, formally presented it in 2017 as belonging to the species Australopithecus prometheus. This assignment, however, coexisted with the position of other ...
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Buried for 3.4 million years, new fossil evidence is removing Lucy from the story of human evolution
A fossilized foot found in the dusty sediments of northern Ethiopia has reopened one of paleoanthropology’s most ...
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 ...
“Hundreds of fossils representing over a dozen species of Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, and Homo had been found in the Afar ...
The skull known as “Little Foot” was thought to belong to the species Austrolopithecus prometheus for decades, but it could be something else. The morphological features of Little Foot did not align ...
In the early 2000s, researchers uncovered primate bones that were approximately seven million years old in Chad’s Djurab Desert. Since then, the fossils, which belonged to the extinct species ...
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