The Lucy fossil’s role in human evolution is debated: new discoveries question whether she was truly our direct ancestor.

Little Foot’ does not fit into any known species, prompting the suggestion that an as-yet unidentified human ancestor may ...

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Revolutionary fossil evidence from Ethiopia is challenging decades of scientific consensus about human origins. New discoveries suggest that the famous Lucy fossil, long considered a direct ancestor ...

A fascinating new discovery has emerged from Ethiopia’s Ledi-Geraru Research Area, where researchers uncovered fossilized teeth that challenge our understanding of early human evolution. According to ...

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An artistic reconstruction of the female Austrolopithecus afarensis (Lucy), based on finds from Hadar, Ethiopia, in the National Museum of Prague on February 4, 2025, in Prague. MICHAL CIZEK / AFP The ...

In 2008, 9-year-old Matthew Berger was just out walking his dog when he tripped over what he thought was a rock. What he actually discovered was far more significant—a nearly 2-million-year-old fossil ...

Ethiopian researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery that fundamentally challenges our understanding of human evolution by uncovering fossil evidence of a previously unknown species that ...

Scientists challenge past conclusions about "Little Foot," an enigmatic ancient human fossil, now arguing that it is an ...

(Reuters) -Researchers have unearthed tooth fossils in Ethiopia dating to about 2.65 million years ago of a previously unknown species in the human evolutionary lineage, one that lived in the same ...

Learn about new research that examined fossilized teeth to confirm the vegetarian diets of Australopithecus, our ancestor that lived over 3 million years ago. Long before humans acquired an appetite ...