In 2008, 9-year-old Matthew Berger was just out walking his dog when he tripped over what he thought was a rock. What he ...

Almost 100 years before calls to decolonize science, Taung was challenging researchers to reassess their internal biases.

New findings reveal the geological age, context, and anatomy of hominin fossils discovered at the Ledi-Geraru Research Project in Ethiopia. Although scientists have uncovered much of the story of ...

Orrorin tugenensis, discovered in Kenya’s Tugen Hills, walked upright 6 million years ago, long before Homo sapiens evolved. Fossilized femurs reveal that this early hominin balanced between climbing ...

An ancient human relative was able to walk the ground on two legs and use their upper limbs to climb and swing like apes, according to a new study of 2 million-year-old vertebrae fossils. An ...

"I imagine there might be some though who will be skeptical -- as is always the case." Their argument centers on a timeline: The oldest known Homo fossil, a jawbone, is dated at 2.8 million years old, ...

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 ...

Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old hominid whose remains were discovered in Ethiopia on this day 41 years ago, is being celebrated in the form of a Google Doodle. She comes from the Australopithecus ...

Tuesday’s Google Doodle marks the discovery of “Lucy”, a skeleton found 41 years ago in Ethiopia that helped scientists understand the evolution of apes into bipedal humans. Named after the Beatles ...

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Three million years ago, Australopithecus africanus was one of the first human ancestor species to live across the southern African grasslands and forests. A new study of fossil teeth suggests that ...