Natural history is a difficult thing to conceptualize. You’ve got eons of undocumented progress, like the evolution of many species. Take, for example, the Australopithecus, an ancient great ape ...

A recent study reveals we have a long-lost relative which hung out with our more famous apelike ancestors about three million years ago. It turns out the human family tree is more complicated than we ...

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 ...

The University of Liverpool has led an international team of scientists to take a fresh look at the running capabilities of Australopithecus afarensis, the early human ancestor famously represented by ...

In the dry, rugged badlands of Ethiopia’s Afar Region, a team of scientists has uncovered fossils that could change how you picture human evolution. These finds, dating back between 2.6 and 2.8 ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. Whenever we think about the process of evolution, there’s ...

1. Introduction to KSD-VP-1/1 : the earliest adult partial skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis / Yohannes Haile-Selassie -- 2. The geologic context of Korsi Dora and the partial skeleton KSD-VP-1/1 ...