・The traditional labels Homo, Australopithecus and Paranthropus may no longer match the tangled relationships revealed by the human fossil record. ・A Monash University researcher proposes placing ...

Around 4 million years ago, Australopithecus afarensis began walking upright on the ancient African savannah, a pivotal moment in human evolution. This unique ape, capable of standing tall, paved the ...

A newly published study has found that males of some of our earliest known ancestors were significantly larger than females. The pronounced difference in body size present in both Australopithecus ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Fifty years ago, a remarkable fossil was unearthed in the Afar Rift ...

(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 ...

In 2009, scientists unearthed fossilized fragments of a 3.4-million-year-old foot in what’s now Ethiopia. They were found roughly 20 miles from where the famous Lucy skeleton was discovered in 1974.

A nearly complete fossilized skull of a 11-to-13-year-old boy from a new species of early Australopithecus hominid discovered in the Cradle of Humankind, outside Johannesburg. The skull is ...

Every once in a great while paleontological fieldwork turns up a fossil so extraordinary that it revolutionizes our understanding of the origin and evolution of an entire branch of the tree of life.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New Monash University research argues our Paranthropus (pictured) and Australopithecus ancestors who lived up to 5 million years ...

Human evolution may need a new name for much of its family tree. Fossils once separated into Homo, Australopithecus and Paranthropus increasingly resist those neat divisions, raising a basic question ...