Scientists working in Ethiopia's Afar Region have made discoveries that rewrite our understanding of early human history. For ...

New fossils unearthed in Morocco could help solve the mystery of how Homo sapiens diverged from other ancient humans like ...

The legendary “Little Foot” fossil may be an entirely new human ancestor. An international team of scientists led by researchers from La Trobe University in Australia and the University of Cambridge ...

Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to unravel in 2025.

Scientists say they have solved the mystery of the Burtele foot, a set of 3.4 million-year-old bones found in Ethiopia in 2009. The fossils, along with others unearthed more recently, have now been ...

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

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 ...