A fossilized foot discovered in Ethiopia and left unclassified for over a decade has now been linked to a little-known human ...

Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a ...

A trio of jawbones, a leg bone, and a handful of vertebrae and teeth found in Morocco may represent one of the last common ...

In a paper published in Nature, a team led by University of Chicago paleoanthropologist Professor Zeresenay Alemseged reports ...

An international research team has announced the most complete fossil yet of Homo habilis (aka 'the handy man') – one of the ...

Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in ...

Ancient fossils from Moroccan caves, dated with rare precision, offer rare insight into early human evolution.

A seven-million-year-old fossil may mark the moment our ancestors first stood up and walked.

The legendary “Little Foot” fossil may be an entirely new human ancestor. An international team of scientists led by ...

Scientists say they have solved the mystery of the Burtele foot, a set of 3.4 million-year-old bones found in Ethiopia in 2009. The fossils, along with others unearthed more recently, have now been ...

The way Sahelanthropus tchadensis moved has long been debated. The discovery of a small bump on the front of the thigh bone ...