“Hundreds of fossils representing over a dozen species of Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, and Homo had been found in the Afar ...
That makes it the northernmost evidence of Paranthropus by 1,000 kilometres (600 miles). Moreover, we’re learning ...
In a paper published in Nature, a team led by University of Chicago paleoanthropologist Professor Zeresenay Alemseged reports ...
Scientists working in Ethiopia's Afar Region have made discoveries that rewrite our understanding of early human history. For ...
One of the most complete human ancestor fossils ever found may belong to an entirely new species, according to an international research team. The famous “Little Foot” skeleton from South Africa has ...
This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...
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 ...
WASHINGTON, Nov 28 (Reuters) - Scientists have solved the mystery of 3.4 million-year-old fossils called the "Burtele Foot" discovered in Ethiopia in 2009, finding they belonged to an enigmatic human ...
Mass-produced tools have flooded the market, but there are still a handful of American-made brands making tools built for tough jobs. If you want tools that won’t fall apart after a year or two, ...
Australopithecus Africanus lived around 3.3 – 2.1 million years ago in Southern Africa, hence the name Australopithecus (Southern ape) Africanus (from Africa). Two skulls have been discovered to be ...