Over a century ago, anthropologist Raymond Dart chipped an ancient skull out of some rock from an ancient quarry — and revealed the face of an ancient human relative.

The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...

The ancient skeleton known as “Little Foot” has long been a celebrity in paleoanthropology, but a new wave of research is pushing it into even more provocative territory. Instead of fitting neatly ...

One of the most famous hominin fossils may not be as familiar as we thought. The specimen, affectionately dubbed "Little Foot ...

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 ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Lucy might be one of the most iconic human ancestors, but she had a neighboring species that has gone unidentified—until now. The foot from this ...

Newfound fossils in modern-day Ethiopia suggest that the mysterious foot belonged to a recently named species, Australopithecus deyiremeda. The finding could alter the story of human evolution ...

About 3.4 million years ago, in what is now the Afar region of Ethiopia, at least two different kinds of early human relatives walked the same landscape. The new paper reports additional jaws and ...