Australopithecus is an extinct group of ape-like modern human relatives—or potentially ancestors—that walked upright and ...

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

Learn how a new analysis challenges the traditional classifications for ‘Little Foot,’ a famous fossil hominin from South ...

On a remote Indonesian island, fossils from a population of tiny humans are forcing scientists to redraw some of the clean lines they once drew through our family tree. These remains, from a species ...