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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Day Science Fell for One of the Most Absurd Hoaxes Ever On December 18, 1912, a group of distinguished gentlemen gathered ...

Scientists say they have solved the mystery of the Burtele foot, a set of 3.4 million-year-old bones found in Ethiopia in ...

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

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