Little Foot is a nearly complete ancient skeleton found in the Sterkfontein caves in South Africa that could change how ...

I’ll reveal our new champion in a moment, but first, a little background. The Bulwer-Lytton contests challenge participants ...

“Hundreds of fossils representing over a dozen species of Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, and Homo had been found in the Afar ...

An international research team has announced the most complete fossil yet of Homo habilis (aka 'the handy man') – one of the earliest known members of our genus. The 2-million-year-old partial ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

More than two decades ago, scientists digging in Central Africa unearthed the 7-million-year-old remains of what may be one of the earliest known human ancestors. Only a few fossils were recovered ...

Scientists may have cracked the case of whether a seven-million-year-old fossil could walk upright. A new study found strong anatomical evidence that Sahelanthropus tchadensis was bipedal, including a ...