A small cluster of fossilized bones from Ethiopia has reopened one of paleoanthropology’s most enduring debates, suggesting ...

The oldest distinguishing feature between humans and our ape cousins is our ability to walk on two legs – a trait known as bipedalism. Among mammals, only humans and our ancestors perform this ...

More than 1 million years before the early hominin known as Lucy was striding across the Afar region of Ethiopia, the lesser-known Ardipithecus ramidus roamed approximately the same area. Now, a team ...

Paleontologists searching the bleak desert of central Ethiopia have unearthed the fossilized bones of a 5.5 million-year-old creature that appears to be the oldest human ancestor yet discovered. The ...

New fossil discoveries in eastern Africa offer a rare glimpse of one of the oldest members of humanity’s evolutionary family. More than 4 million years ago, this upright-walking hominid—dubbed ...

Hominin foot bones found in 3.4-million-year-old sediments in Ethiopia have been assigned to a recently described species.

Researchers announced their findings in 2012, but while they knew the bones didn’t belong to the hominin species A. afarensis ...

4.5 million-year old fossil shows evidence of greater reliance on bipedalism than previously suggested The oldest distinguishing feature between humans and our ape cousins is our ability to walk on ...

Figuring out the story of human origins is like assembling a huge, complicated jigsaw puzzle that has lost most of its pieces. Many will never be found, and those that do turn up are sometimes hard to ...