Walking on two legs has long been considered a milestone in human evolution and one of our most defining characteristics.

Little Foot, a 3.67 million-year-old human ancestor, is getting a digital facial reconstruction after her skull was crushed ...

In this eye-opening talk, fish paleobiologist Lauren Sallan explains how one of Earth’s most devastating mass extinctions reshaped life on the planet. Around 359 million years ago, nearly 96% of fish ...

Little Foot’s face looks like it has been through a slow-motion car crash, because it has. For millions of years, rock ...

A new digital reconstruction of the face of an early Australopithecus specimen helps add details about the origins of our own ...

An international team of researchers has presented this week the analysis of a fossil discovered in Bulgaria that could ...

The article ‘ A new face for ‘Little Foot’, the most complete Australopithecus skeleton to date ’ by Amélie Beaudet and Dominic Stratford was originally published on The Conversation and has been ...

Humans don’t have a defined mating season like deer or wolves. Here’s how evolution blended biology, culture and social life into year-round intimacy.

One eye-catching detail is the researchers’ estimate that the bone likely belonged to a small female, about 24 kg, and nicknamed “Diva.” Spassov noted the fossil seems to sit somewhere between older, ...

Video. Growing research – including ancient DNA technology – is changing the picture of human evolution and how our ancestors interacted with other human-like creatures.

New research reveals that ancient interbreeding between humans and Neanderthals shaped our modern human DNA - especially on ...

Growing research – including ancient DNA technology – is changing the picture of human evolution and how our ancestors interacted with other human-like creatures.View on euronews ...