One of the most complete human ancestor fossils ever found may belong to an entirely new species, according to an ...

An international research team led by scientists from La Trobe University in Australia and the University of Cambridge is questioning how one of the ...

In 1998, paleoanthropologist Ronald Clarke and his research team discovered the skull of a previously unknown human ancestor ...

The classification of one of the most complete human ancestor fossils ever discovered, the skeleton known as Little Foot, has been called into question by an international research team led from La ...

Skull, Australopithecus prometheus, South Africa(Courtesy the University of the Witwatersrand) A new dating technique is making it easier for paleoanthropologists to study the human evolutionary ...

Palaeontology is the study of prehistoric species, mostly ones that are extinct. It focuses primarily on fossil data, using a variety of physical, chemical and biological techniques to analyse them.