A stunning fossil discovery in Ethiopia shows that early Homo and a previously unknown Australopithecus species lived together around 2.6 to 2.8 million years ago. The find overturns the classic ...

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 ...

In Ethiopia, an international team of researchers has discovered fossil teeth of ancient hominids, which prove that about 3 ...

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Australopithecus fossils are a million years older than thought New burial dating techniques applied to South African cave sediments reveal that Australopithecus fossils are far older than previously ...

Australopithecus afarensis© "Australopithecus afarensis" by Rod Waddington is licensed under BY-SA 2.0. Natural history is a difficult thing to conceptualize. You’ve got eons of undocumented ...

Australopithecus sediba (center) has a unique mix of anatomical traits that has led to debate over its proper place in the hominin family tree. For comparison: a small-bodied female modern human (left ...

A surprising mix of apelike and humanlike features from head to toe supports a controversial contention that a 2-million-year-old member of the human evolutionary family gave rise to the genus Homo, ...

Lucy, a hairy and short skeleton that looks a little like a human, is being celebrated by today’s Google Doodle. But who is she and how does she get her name? The skeleton was found 41 years ago today ...