Homo habilis has long been considered the earliest member of the human genus, known for its association with early stone tools. This episode explores the fossil evidence from East Africa, the debate ...

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 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 could be an entirely new species, according to a new study. The fossil, found in South Africa’s Sterkfontein Caves in 1998 and dubbed “the ...

Fifty years after a fossil skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis was unearthed in Ethiopia, we know so much more about how this iconic species lived and died. When you purchase through links on our ...

Little Foot skull (left) with arrow (right) indicating position of atlas vertebra Skulls receive most of the attention in the study of human evolution, but the atlas vertebra, which sits just beneath ...

Consuming the meat of large animals is generally thought to have been instrumental in human evolution. It allowed early hominins, such as australopithecines, to begin developing larger brains some 3.4 ...