In 2009, paleoanthropologists found eight bones from the foot of an ancient human ancestor in 3.4-million-year-old sediments at the paleontological site...
Soft tissues rarely preserve in the fossil record, rather scientists are mostly left with just the skeletal material. Yet, muscles animate the body. They...
Human brains are three times larger, are organized differently, and mature for a longer period of time than those of our closest living relatives, the...
Australopithecus anamensis is the earliest-known species in the genus Australopithecus. The species is widely accepted as the ancestor of Lucy’s species,...
