New fossil discoveries in Africa are transforming our understanding of Australopithecus and its place in human evolution. Evidence now shows multiple species coexisted with early Homo, challenging the ...

A child's skull discovered in a South African quarry in 1924 changed human history. Named the Taung Child, this fossil proved ...

New dating of sediments from the Sterkfontein Caves in South Africa suggests some Australopithecus fossils are around 3.4 to ...

Through fossilized tooth enamel, scientists are reconstructing the diets and landscapes that existed millions of years ago.

Analysis of a 7.2-million-year-old thigh bone recovered from the Azmaka fossil deposit in Bulgaria suggests that the capacity ...

A unique comedy improv approach called ‘The Experts’ starts off with a TED-talk style lecture by an actual expert in their field, followed by the comedy team at Lickety-Split improvising by taking ...

Digital reconstruction of the face of the Little Foot fossil. Credit: A. Beaudet / CC BY-SA 4.0 More than three million years before ancient civilizations emerged, a small-brained, upright-walking ...

Beyond their value for classification and evolutionary relationships, changes in the size and shape of the hominin face through time can reflect important functional adaptations. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Little Foot’s face, however, has long eluded characterization—the fossil’s skull was smashed in after an estimated 3.67 million ...

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Scientists may have cracked the case of whether a seven-million-year-old fossil could walk upright. A new study found strong anatomical evidence that Sahelanthropus tchadensis was bipedal, including a ...