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

Human evolution is not a straight line but a complex branching tree shared with other great apes. This overview explains the ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

When studying how fossil hominids moved, researchers usually analyse the morphology of bones — which is crucial for ...