A nearly complete skeleton from South Africa’s Sterkfontein Caves, known as Little Foot, may represent a distinct branch of ...

(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 ...

A boy and his father were out walking around north of Johannesburg, South Africa. Luckily, the father was a paleoanthropologist and he knew the remains found by his son could be a major archeological ...

New fossil discoveries are reshaping scientists’ understanding of a pivotal chapter in human evolution, revealing that ...

University of Utah researcher contends that males of the genus Australopithecus, our immediate ancestors, had short legs to maintain better balance when fighting over women. American biologist David ...

Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels over and draws its last breath. The carcass is soon set on by hyenas, who ...