The 'Lucy' fossil skeleton is one of the best-known finds in anthropology. Now, researchers have found a skeleton of the oldest known upright-walking animal, thought to be even older than Lucy's 3 ...

After more than two decades of work excavating and restoring the oldest hominid skeleton ever discovered in southern Africa, scientists have finally unveiled it to the public. According to CNN ...

An ancient hominid skeleton dubbed Little Foot possessed a brain largely similar to that of modern chimpanzees and an inner ear with a mix of apelike and humanlike features, two studies suggest ...

Little Foot, a nearly complete hominid skeleton painstakingly excavated from rock inside a South African cave, shouldered a powerful evolutionary load. This 3.67-million-year-old adult female ...

A Los Alamos National Laboratory geologist is part of an international research team responsible for discovering the oldest nearly intact skeleton of Ardipithecus ramidus, who lived 4.4 million ...

For decades, scientists could not agree on whether to classify the Dickinsonia as an animal or not — until this new study showed that it is actually the oldest known animal.

Among the many surprises associated with the discovery of the oldest known, nearly complete skeleton of a hominid is the finding that this species took its first steps toward bipedalism not on the ...

The discovery of a hominid skeleton dating back 4.4 million years may provide evidence that humans did not evolve from chimps.

Hominid hunting requires a lot of hard work and determination. Paleoanthropologists can spend months surveying a landscape, studying the fine details of a geologic formation and sifting through ...

But many scientists now say that Ardi -- the slight, female skeleton of a "transitional" evolutionary hominid -- may be a "possible human ancestor in the midst of changing from climbing on all ...

"Humans picked up some Neanderthal DNA through interbreeding, while the Neanderthal population, always fairly small, was ...

Ancient Worlds New Ancient Hominid Skeleton Found in South Africa By Tim De Chant Thursday, November 14, 2013 NOVA Next ...