The traditional labels Homo, Australopithecus and Paranthropus may no longer match the tangled relationships revealed by the ...

A new study could reshape human evolution by placing Australopithecus and Paranthropus within an expanded genus Homo.

Recent advances in our understanding of human evolution challenge the way we currently name and classify our ancestors, ...

The most famous Australopithecus fossil is the one nicknamed Lucy The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances such as ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. Whenever we think about the process of evolution, there’s ...

Researchers from the University of Southern California (USC) have published the results of a cutting-edge study analysing a three million-year-old fossil dubbed Little Foot. The exceptionally ...

The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances such as increased brain size. But scientists have struggled to determine ...

Australopithecus afarensis© "Australopithecus afarensis" by Rod Waddington is licensed under BY-SA 2.0. Natural history is a difficult thing to conceptualize. You've got eons of undocumented progress, ...

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Fossils of early ...

Natural history is a difficult thing to conceptualize. You’ve got eons of undocumented progress, like the evolution of many species. Take, for example, the Australopithecus, an ancient great ape ...