The University of Witwatersrand (Wits University), the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in the U.S. and the National Geographic Society have partnered to bring the rare fossils of two recently ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Everything we know about the group of human ancestors called australopiths comes from just a few dozen fossils. But a skull discovered in Ethiopia ...

The discovery of a nearly intact skull in Ethiopia is the first to show the facial characteristics of a critically important species linked to early hominin evolution. At the same time, the ...

Discovered in Ethiopia, the skeletal remains uncovered by Yves Coppens, Maurice Taieb and Donald Johanson date back 3.2 million years. Today’s Google logo has been replaced with an animated Doodle ...

Scientists now know that the species lived at the same time as Lucy. Researchers have discovered a "remarkably complete" cranium of a human ancestor dating back 3.8 million years. The fossil, known as ...

An international team of scientists discovered and analyzed a 3.6 million-year-old partial skeleton found in Ethiopia. Research indicates that advanced human-like, upright walking occurred much ...

Lucy had company. Her species of Australopithicus was not alone in the neighbourhood some 3.2 million years ago – they lived alongside at least one other type of early human. For decades, ...

A nearly complete cranium from Ethiopia reveals the face of Australopithecus anamensis, the oldest known species of Australopithecus. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. LAS VEGAS — A famous trail of footprints once thought to have been left behind by a family of ...

The great apes alive today outperform pre-humans in the brain department. That's according to research published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B on Wednesday. The findings challenge ...