Purdue's Darryl Granger and Marc Caffee have determined the age of a fossilized skeleton thought to be an Australopithecus – a genus of African hominids from which humanity is thought to have ...

Berkeley -- New fossils discovered in the Afar desert of eastern Ethiopia are a missing link between our ape-man ancestors some 3.5 million years ago and more primitive hominids a million years older, ...

CRADLE OF HUMANKIND, South Africa — Matthew Berger, 9, dashed after his dog Tau into the high grass here one morning in 2008, tripped over a log and stumbled onto a major archaeological discovery.

The remains of a hominid that date back nearly 4 million years have been uncovered by a field team in Ethiopia. The discovery, announced in Addis Ababa on 4 March, looks set to provide crucial new ...

Fossil find sheds light on the transition to Homo genus from earlier hominids These new fossils, however, represent a hominid that appeared approximately one million years later than Lucy, and their ...

Walking was afoot long ago among toddler-aged members of a hominid species best known for Lucy’s partial skeleton. “The overall anatomy of this child’s foot is strikingly humanlike,” says study ...

Two years ago, nine-year-old Matthew Berger accompanied his dad, paleoanthropologist Lee Berger, to an archeological excavation site in South Africa. Running after his dog, he noticed an ...