The names scientists give to humanity’s ancient relatives are more than labels. They encode a story about who counts as close ...
A new study could reshape human evolution by placing Australopithecus and Paranthropus within an expanded genus Homo.
About 3.8 million years ago, a distant human relative took his final steps. Swept into a river delta, his head was buried in sand that, over time, hardened into a stone helmet. The skull fossilized ...
Everything we know about the group of human ancestors called australopiths comes from just a few dozen fossils. But a skull discovered in Ethiopia is now changing anthropologists' understanding of the ...
WASHINGTON, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Scientists on Wednesday announced the landmark discovery in Ethiopia of a nearly complete skull of an early human ancestor that lived 3.8 million years ago, a species ...