The Lucy fossil’s role in human evolution is debated: new discoveries question whether she was truly our direct ancestor.

Scientists have solved the mystery of 3.4 million-year-old fossils called the “Burtele Foot” discovered in Ethiopia in 2009, ...

Revolutionary fossil evidence from Ethiopia is challenging decades of scientific consensus about human origins. New discoveries suggest that the famous Lucy fossil, long considered a direct ancestor ...

In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...

Little Foot’ does not fit into any known species, prompting the suggestion that an as-yet unidentified human ancestor may ...

Recent fossil finds could mean that "Lucy" wasn't our direct ancestor, some scientists say. Others strongly disagree.

Human evolution is not a straight line but a complex branching tree shared with other great apes. This overview explains the ...

Little Foot skull (left) with arrow (right) indicating position of atlas vertebra Skulls receive most of the attention in the study of human evolution, but the atlas vertebra, which sits just beneath ...

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

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

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