Researchers at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) have led a study, recently published in the Journal of Human Evolution, on the diet of individuals at the Sima de ...

Hominid footprints found on Crete date back 5.6 million years, making them by far the oldest ever discovered in Europe.

New burial dating techniques applied to South African cave sediments reveal that Australopithecus fossils are far older than previously believed. The revised dates reshape early human evolution and ...

One of the most complete human ancestor fossils ever found may belong to an entirely new species, according to an international research team. The famous “Little Foot” skeleton from South Africa has ...

In recent decades, scientists have debated whether a seven-million-year-old fossil was bipedal—a trait that would make it the oldest human ancestor. A new analysis by a team of anthropologists offers ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The Dmanisi Hominid Archaeological Site is home to the oldest hominid fossils in Europe, and many studies have tried to sort through the fossils to ...

Mineral deposits found on the fossilized remains of Australopithecus sediba could be early human skin. (Courtesy Lee Berger and the University of the Witwatersrand) The 2.2-million-year-old fossils of ...

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 ...

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Several hominids — Australopithecus africanus, Paranthropus robustus, early Homo sp., Gigantopithecus blacki, Pongo sp., Papio sp., Homo neanderthalensis, and Homo sapiens — were consistently exposed ...