Fossils newly discovered in Ethiopia indicate that previously unidentified foot bones belong to the ancient human relative ...

With the help of newly identified bones, an enigmatic 3.4-million-year-old hominin foot found in 2009, is assigned to a ...

Plants have been part of our diet as long as meat has, with new evidence showing that Neanderthals, early Homo sapiens and ...

Unassigned bones from Ethiopia, combined with teeth and jaw finds, show how two ancient hominin species thrived on different ...

A 3.4-million-year-old fossil foot reveals that two early hominin species lived together - A. deyiremeda and A. afarensis.

The human evolutionary tree can be complicated—but understanding where hominids end and hominins begin reveals how we fit ...

Understanding Climate's Change on Human Evolution suggests a new scientific program for international climate and human evolution studies that involve an exploration initiative to locate new fossil ...

A mega-catalog of 1,231 fossils reveals that Homo was never a rare species in Omo-Turkana and rewrites the history of our ...

Researchers have finally assigned a strange 3.4-million-year-old foot to Australopithecus deyiremeda, confirming that Lucy’s species wasn’t alone in ancient Ethiopia. This hominin had an opposable big ...

Scientists have identified Homo juluensis, a new human species that lived in eastern Asia between 300,000 and 50,000 years ...

Newly identified bones tie the mysterious Burtele foot to a new Australopithecus species that lived alongside Lucy more than ...