An ancient human relative was able to walk the ground on two legs and use their upper limbs to climb and swing like apes, according to a new study of 2 million-year-old vertebrae fossils. An ...

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New cosmogenic burial dating at Sterkfontein's Member 4 placed sediments near Australopithecus fossils between about 3.41 and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Little Foot's face, however, has long eluded characterization—the fossil's skull was smashed in after an estimated 3.67 million ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. Whenever we think about the process of evolution, there’s ...