LOS ANGELES -- After examining the fossils of two hominids that lived nearly 2 million years ago, anthropologists said that the anatomical features of the adult female and young male strongly suggest ...

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The fossil hands of Australopithecus sediba (around two million years old) and Homo naledi (around 250,000 years old) show that these South African hominins may have had different levels of dexterity, ...

WASHINGTON - Two million-year-old bones belonging to a creature with both apelike and human traits provide the clearest evidence of evolution's first major step toward modern humans - findings some ...

The cranium of the juvenile skeleton of Australopithecus sediba.Brett Eloff / Courtesy of Lee Berger and the University of Witwatersrand One August day in 2008, a pair of nine-year-old boys crossed ...

WASHINGTON - Two skeletons nearly 2 million years old and unearthed in South Africa are part of a previously unknown species that scientists say fits the transition from ancient apes to modern humans.

A team of palaeontologists recently announced remarkable results from one of the largest tranches of pre-human fossils ever found in anthropological history. These two-million-year-old bones likely ...