CRADLE OF HUMANKIND, South Africa — Matthew Berger, 9, dashed after his dog Tau into the high grass here one morning in 2008, tripped over a log and stumbled onto a major archaeological discovery.

Purdue's Darryl Granger and Marc Caffee have determined the age of a fossilized skeleton thought to be an Australopithecus – a genus of African hominids from which humanity is thought to have ...

Two years ago, nine-year-old Matthew Berger accompanied his dad, paleoanthropologist Lee Berger, to an archeological excavation site in South Africa. Running after his dog, he noticed an ...

(CN) – The site of the largest known hominid fossil collection has once again provided clues about the newfound human relative, Homo naledi. After probing deeper into the South African cave system ...

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A newly documented species, called Australopithecus sediba, was an upright walker that shared many physical traits with the earliest known Homo species -- and its introduction into the fossil record ...

Lucy’s kind had small, chimplike brains that, nevertheless, grew at a slow, humanlike pace. This discovery, reported April 1 in Science Advances, shows for the first time that prolonged brain growth ...

A team of paleontologists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, working with colleagues from Xi'an Jiaotong University, the University of York, the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and the ...

Hominid teeth hold clues to our evolutionary history. Learn how fossilized teeth reshape our understanding of human origins and the complexity of our family tree. Probing the origins of humanity is ...

In 2003, when fossil remains were uncovered in Liang Bua Cave on the Indonesian island of Flores, the discoverers dubbed the remains Homo floresiensis, a new hominid species. But in a new study, ...

What may be the definitive most interdisciplinary work in a debate that has been raging in palaeoanthropology for two years will be published in Anatomical Record. The new research comprehensively and ...

Homo helmei is one of several obscure species of our own genus that are represented by a few fossils that don’t fit neatly into existing hominid species Erin Wayman While I was doing some research ...