The brain of one of the oldest Australopithecus individuals ever found was a little bit ape-like and a little bit human. The modern human brain owes a lot to these small, hairy human ancestors, but we ...

Paranthropus boisei fossils date to 1.52 million years ago Species was a member of the human evolutionary lineage Fossils show it would have been able to grasp stone tools Oct 17 (Reuters) - ...

This story was updated at 3:14 p.m. ET. A mysterious ancient relative of humanity known as Little Foot apparently roamed the Earth at about the same time as the famed Lucy, suggesting the ancestors of ...

The ancient skeleton is the most complete Australopithecus fossil ever found. The virtually complete Australopithecus fossil "Little Foot" is displayed at the University of the Witwatersrand in ...

Little Foot, a nearly complete hominid skeleton painstakingly excavated from rock inside a South African cave, shouldered a powerful evolutionary load. This 3.67-million-year-old adult female sports ...