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

Deep cave layers on Sulawesi preserve tools, bones, and art that may show modern humans overlapping with earlier hominins.

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A fossilized foot discovered in Ethiopia and left unclassified for over a decade has now been linked to a little-known human ...

This meant Lucy was a hominid—only humans and our close relatives in the human family habitually walk upright on the ground. A member of the species Australopithecus afarensis, which lived from 3.9 ...

Scientists say they have solved the mystery of the Burtele foot, a set of 3.4 million-year-old bones found in Ethiopia in 2009. The fossils, along with others unearthed more recently, have now been ...