Fresh findings about arm and leg bones advance the debate over whether Sahelanthropus tchadensis was bipedal, but not ...

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 ...

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

A seven-million-year-old fossil may rewrite human origins, showing our ancestors were walking upright far earlier than anyone expected.

Over a century ago, anthropologist Raymond Dart chipped an ancient skull out of some rock from an ancient quarry — and revealed the face of an ancient human relative.

Australian researchers have raised the possibility of the existence of a new human ancestor in connection with one of the world’s most complete human fossils. The specimen, nicknamed ‘Little Foot’, ...

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

A WORLD-FAMOUS fossil nicknamed “Little Foot” may actually belong to a new humanlike species. The fossil was previously thought to be a member of a genus called Australopithecus – but a fresh probe ...

In 1998, researchers discovered one of the most complete known human ancestral fossils in South Africa’s Sterkfontein Caves. Almost two decades later, Ronald Clarke, the paleoanthropologist who had ...