Kayleigh explains why her playlist title “Hominids” is not wrong: hominids include all great apes, while hominins include ...

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.

Fossil find sheds light on the transition to Homo genus from earlier hominids These new fossils, however, represent a hominid that appeared approximately one million years later than Lucy, and their ...

A nearly complete hominid skeleton known as Little Foot has finally been largely freed from the stony shell in which it was discovered in a South African cave more than 20 years ago. And in the first ...

Berkeley -- New fossils discovered in the Afar desert of eastern Ethiopia are a missing link between our ape-man ancestors some 3.5 million years ago and more primitive hominids a million years older, ...

An international team with researchers from the University of Zurich is writing on the development history of humanity. They have discovered a new type of hominid in South Africa. The fossils with an ...

Walking was afoot long ago among toddler-aged members of a hominid species best known for Lucy’s partial skeleton. “The overall anatomy of this child’s foot is strikingly humanlike,” says study ...