An international research team has unveiled a significant discovery in human paleontology: an exceptionally well-preserved ...

AUSTIN, Texas -- Evidence preserved in the internal skeletal structure of the world-famous fossil, Lucy, suggests the ancient human species frequently climbed trees, according to a new analysis by ...

This is a 3D model created using a scan of an upper arm (humerus) bone from a prehistoric woman agriculturalist. this bone is from a North African population, and did not feature in the study itself, ...

Since the discovery of the fossil 42 years ago this month, paleontologists have debated whether the 3.2 million-year-old human ancestor, dubbed Lucy, spent all of her time walking on the ground or ...

In 2001, researchers unearthed a partial fossil leg bone and two forearm bones in the central African nation of Chad. Those fossils come from the earliest known hominid, which lived around 7 million ...