Little Foot’ does not fit into any known species, prompting the suggestion that an as-yet unidentified human ancestor may ...

Australian researchers think the skeleton found in South Africa is not the same species as two found in the same South Africa cave system ...

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.

For decades, Little Foot, or StW 573, was seen as a crucial piece of the puzzle in understanding early human ancestors. First ...

A WORLD-FAMOUS fossil nicknamed “Little Foot” may actually belong to a new humanlike species. The fossil was previously ...

An international study led by researchers from Australia's La Trobe University and the University of Cambridge has challenged ...

Australopithecus is an extinct group of ape-like modern human relatives—or potentially ancestors—that walked upright and ...

Australian-led study suggests iconic South African skeleton differs from known Australopithecus species, media reports - ...

Recent fossil finds could mean that "Lucy" wasn't our direct ancestor, some scientists say. Others strongly disagree.

Specimen found in South Africa was widely thought to be member of ape-like human ancestor family that lived nearly 2 million ...

A foot fossil found in Ethiopia belonged to an ancient human. The finding could knock one of the most famous names in human evolution from her spot on the family tree.