In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...

(Reuters) - The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances such as increased brain size. But scientists have struggled to ...

Revolutionary fossil evidence from Ethiopia is challenging decades of scientific consensus about human origins. New discoveries suggest that the famous Lucy fossil, long considered a direct ancestor ...

Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same place ...

This year, researchers made impressive discoveries across 3 million years of human evolution, most of which relied on DNA, ...

Scientists challenge past conclusions about "Little Foot," an enigmatic ancient human fossil, now arguing that it is an ...

The ape-like human ancestor Australopithecus—perhaps best known from the iconic fossil ‘Lucy’—might not have had much meat on its menu. After examining more than 3.3-million-year-old remains from ...

A study on the teeth of ancestors to humans that lived around 3.5 million years ago has found they were mostly or totally vegetarian. The consumption of animal foods such as meat is considered to be a ...

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