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

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 ...

A partial skeleton dating back more than two million years is the most complete yet of Homo habilis, one of the earliest ...

Ethiopia’s Afar region has stood out in the study of human evolution for its vast array of hominin fossils, from some of the earliest known Homo sapiens dating to 160,000 years, to hominins dating as ...

In a paper published in Nature, a team led by University of Chicago paleoanthropologist Professor Zeresenay Alemseged reports ...

Our species, Homo sapiens, has been evolving for more than 300,000 years, but the story of human origins starts much earlier. Since evolving from the common ancestor that we share with our closest ...

The legendary “Little Foot” fossil may be an entirely new human ancestor. An international team of scientists led by researchers from La Trobe University in Australia and the University of Cambridge ...

An undated illustration shows the 3.4-million-year-old bones of the “Burtele foot,” which belonged to the ancient human relative Australopithecus deyiremeda, in their anatomical position and with the ...

Scientists studying fossils from Ethiopia’s Afar Rift have uncovered evidence of another early human species which lived around the same time as Lucy, roughly 3.4 million years ago. For nearly 50 ...

In 1998, a unique fossil was discovered in South Africa’s Sterkfontein Caves, a site long associated with discoveries of interest to paleoanthropologists. The specimen, nicknamed “Little Foot,” was ...

As First Brands Group makes its way through bankruptcy court, the auto parts supplier is bumping up against an unexpected snafu: Its customers don’t seem to know who to pay. As the extent of First ...

“For over a hundred years, it was hypothesized that our ancestors lived in grassland savannahs and that this major ecosystem change drove human evolution, including the origins of bipedalism and ...