For a half century, the iconic "Lucy" fossil species, Australopithecus afarensis, has held the title of being the most likely direct ancestor of all humans. But as the list of ancient human relatives ...

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 ...

One of the most complete human ancestor fossils ever found may belong to an entirely new species, according to an ...

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The classification of one of the most complete human ancestor fossils ever discovered, the skeleton known as Little Foot, has been called into question by an international research team led from La ...

One of the world’s most complete early human fossils, known as Little Foot, may represent a previously unidentified species of human ancestor, according to a new Australian-led study that challenges ...