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

Learn how a new analysis challenges the traditional classifications for ‘Little Foot,’ a famous fossil hominin from South ...

Scientists generally agree that Little Foot belongs to the Australopithecus genus, but disagree on which species. Some say it ...

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 ...

When paleoanthropologists finally freed the skeleton called Little Foot from its stone prison in South Africa, they believed ...

(Reuters) - The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances such as increased brain size. But scientists have struggled to ...

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 ...

The 'Little Foot' fossil, discovered in South Africa's Sterkfontein Caves, may represent an entirely new species of human ...

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

New Australopithecus fossils found in Ethiopia are changing the human family tree. While Australopithecus afarensis has long been considered an ancestor of all later human species, including our own, ...

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