Little Foot is a nearly complete ancient skeleton found in the Sterkfontein caves in South Africa that could change how ...

A fossilized foot discovered in Ethiopia and left unclassified for over a decade has now been linked to a little-known human ...

The legendary “Little Foot” fossil may be an entirely new human ancestor. An international team of scientists led by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A REPLICA of the remains of a more than 3-million-year-old female hominid known as "Lucy" at the National Museum in Addis Ababa ...

Dr. Martin's team is the first to have challenged the species attribution of Little Foot since it was unveiled in 2017. "Our findings challenge the current classification of Little Foot and highlight ...

In the dry, rugged badlands of Ethiopia’s Afar Region, a team of scientists has uncovered fossils that could change how you picture human evolution. These finds, dating back between 2.6 and 2.8 ...

But this latest discovery seems to challenge that. It appears that Paranthropus had greater dietary flexibility than first interpreted, could adapt to a wide range of environmental conditions and was ...

Our species, Homo sapiens, has been evolving for more than 300,000 years, but the story of human origins starts much earlier.

UNLV anthropology professor Brian Villmoare (right, in blue shirt) and colleagues screening at the Ledi-Geraru research site in 2018. The discovery of new fossils and a new species of ancient ancestor ...

Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same place ...