Little Foot” is the most complete Australopithecus fossil ever found. And now we finally have an idea of what this group of ...

Footage shows how researchers discovers fossil human footprints embedded in an ancient lakebed that show humans inhabited North America during the Last Glacial Maximum, in what is now New Mexico.

On a dry lakebed in southern New Mexico, a set of ghostly footprints has forced archaeologists to redraw the map of the first Americans. These tracks, pressed into mud by teenagers, children, and ...

Fragments of BRT-VP-2/135 before assembly. The specimen was found in 29 pieces of which 27 of them were recovered by sifting and picking the sifted dirt. With the help of newly identified bones, an ...

A 1.5-million-year-old fossil from Gona, Ethiopia reveals new details about the first hominin species to disperse from Africa. Summary: Virtual reassembly of teeth and fossil bone fragments reveals a ...