A foot fossil found in Ethiopia belonged to an ancient human. The finding could knock one of the most famous names in human ...

The ancient skeleton known as “Little Foot” has long been a celebrity in paleoanthropology, but a new wave of research is pushing it into even more provocative territory. Instead of fitting neatly ...

An international study led by researchers from Australia's La Trobe University and the University of Cambridge has challenged ...

Australian-led study suggests iconic South African skeleton differs from known Australopithecus species, media reports - ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

(CNN) — The story of how humans evolved is a long and winding one — and it grows more complicated with each passing year. Discoveries in the past two decades have added new branches to the human ...

Every once in a great while paleontological fieldwork turns up a fossil so extraordinary that it revolutionizes our understanding of the origin and evolution of an entire branch of the tree of life.