When considering the unnamed major features of all the moons, asteroids, and comets in our solar system, there are still a ...

Olduvai Gorge and Laetoli in northern Tanzania are not just local treasures; they are global landmarks. These fossil-rich ...

Recently, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) approved a new naming scheme for the features on the asteroid designated as Donald Johanson, which is the primary target of NASA's "Lucy" mission.

WASHINGTON >> Bipedal locomotion — walking upright on two legs — is a fundamental trait underpinning humankind’s success. Scientists have now identified two innovations that occurred long ago in the ...

The oldest Homo fossil remains date back to between around two million and three million years ago, which is the same time period during which Australopithecus afarensis, a potential ancestor of Homo, ...

Prague’s newest visitor is 3.2 million years old. Lucy, the famed Australopithecus afarensis fossil, has arrived in the Czech capital alongside Selam, a young child of the same species, for a ...

Green, D., Gordon, A., and Richmond, Brian G. 2007. "Limb-size proportions in Australopithecus afarensis and Australopithecus africanus." Journal of Human Evolution ...

Bipedal locomotion — walking upright on two legs — is a fundamental trait underpinning humankind’s success. Scientists now have identified two innovations that occurred long ago in the human ...

Left molars from the Ledi-Geraru specimen (left) and a specimen from Hadar, another fossil site in Ethiopia (right). “LD 760 molars compared to A. afarensis.” by  Villmoare et al. from Nature ...

Next time you're trying to size someone up, take a look at their thumbs. If they have particularly long thumbs, they might be especially clever, a new study suggests. Scientists at the universities of ...