A fossilized foot found in the dusty sediments of northern Ethiopia has reopened one of paleoanthropology’s most ...

(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 3.4M-year-old set of foot bones from Ethiopia is forcing paleoanthropologists to redraw one of the most familiar diagrams ...

But this latest discovery seems to challenge that. It appears that Paranthropus had greater dietary flexibility than first interpreted, could adapt to a wide range of environmental conditions and was ...

The ape-like human ancestor Australopithecus—perhaps best known from the iconic fossil ‘Lucy’—might not have had much meat on its menu. After examining more than 3.3-million-year-old remains from ...

This world-famous fossil is now on display in Abu Dhabi, allowing visitors to see up close one of the most important finds in ...

March 21 -- A 3.5-million-year-old, flat-faced early human skull, which paleontologists found poking from the crumbling Kenyan earth, could push "Lucy" out of our ancestral family tree. For 20 years, ...

Fred Spoor is at the Centre for Human Evolution Research, Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK, and in the Department of Human Origins, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, ...

While we know much of the story of how humans evolved, the puzzle is still missing critical pieces. For example, fossil evidence for human evolution between 2 and 3 million years ago is patchy. It’s ...

When palaeoanthropologist Donald Johanson discovered a bone fragment at the Hadar fossil site in Ethiopia in 1974, he knew it was an extraordinary find, but little did he know just how much it would ...

The museum’s groundbreaking Hall of Human Origins centers around the adaptations that set early humans apart Jack Tamisiea What does it mean to be human? This question, deceptively simple and imbued ...