(Reuters) - The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances such as increased brain size. But scientists have struggled to ...

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

In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little Foot,” fossil an exquisitely preserved hominin found in South Africa’s ...

Scientists have solved the mystery of 3.4 million-year-old fossils called the “Burtele Foot” discovered in Ethiopia in 2009, ...

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 ...

エチオピアで発見された380万年前のヒト族のほぼ完全な頭蓋骨化石について記述した2編の論文が、今週掲載される。著者は、この頭蓋骨がアウストラロピテクス・アナメンシス（Australopithecus anamensis）種のものだとしており、最も原始的な ...

The Lucy fossil’s role in human evolution is debated: new discoveries question whether she was truly our direct ancestor.

The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances such as increased brain size. But scientists have struggled to determine ...

Researchers from the University of Southern California (USC) have published the results of a cutting-edge study analysing a three million-year-old fossil dubbed Little Foot. The exceptionally ...

The species Australopithecus afarensis inhabited East Africa more than three million years ago, and occupies a key position in the hominin family tree, as it is widely accepted to be ancestral to all ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Everything we know about the group of human ancestors called australopiths comes from just a few dozen fossils. But a skull discovered in Ethiopia ...

New fossils from Kenya suggest that an early hominid species -- Australopithecus afarensis-- lived far eastward beyond the Great Rift Valley and much farther than previously thought. An international ...