New burial dating techniques applied to South African cave sediments reveal that Australopithecus fossils are far older than ...

Scientists have solved the mystery of 3.4 million-year-old fossils called the "Burtele Foot" discovered in Ethiopia in 2009, finding they belonged to an enigmatic human ancestor that lived alongside ...

The new findings add depth to the understanding of this period of human evolution, long before our species Homo sapiens arose roughly 300,000 years ago WASHINGTON, DC, USA – Scientists have solved the ...

A fossilized foot discovered in Ethiopia and left unclassified for over a decade has now been linked to a little-known human ...