Using 3D technology and other methods, the team identified Sahelanthropus’s femoral tubercle, which is the point of ...

A long-running and bitterly fought dispute over whether the earliest known hominin had a knuckle-walking gait, like ...

In recent decades, scientists have debated whether a seven-million-year-old fossil was bipedal—a trait that would make it the ...

Here are 10 major findings about human ancestors and our close ancient relatives that scientists announced in 2025. A handful ...

On December 18, 1912, a group of distinguished gentlemen gathered at the Geological Society of London to witness history in the making. The mood was electric. Arthur Smith Woodward, a prestigious ...

A new study is challenging long-held assumptions about the identity of one of the world’s most complete early human fossils. Little Foot, discovered in South Africa’s Sterkfontein Caves in 1998, was ...

Australian researchers think the skeleton found in South Africa is not the same species as two found in the same South Africa cave system Little Foot, one of the world’s most complete hominin fossils, ...

Scientists think the famous Little Foot skeleton from South Africa could actually belong to a previously unknown species of ancient human relative. The fossil, found in 1994 and finally revealed in ...

The recently acquired skull of the dome-headed dinosaur Pachycephalosaurus. USNM PAL 803273, Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution. Gift of Eric and Wendy Schmidt. Photo by James D.

A human skull was found just in the bushes off the Coney Island boardwalk Tuesday evening, cops said. A homeless person spotted the remains just off the beach’s iconic Riegelmann Boardwalk between ...

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 ...