New study shows you run faster and more efficiently when your calf muscles are strong, and your Achilles tendons are springy ...

Evidence of one of the smallest - and perhaps unluckiest - early human relatives has been found in South Africa, according to a paper in the Journal of Human Evolution. Researchers who found what they ...

The new series of Who Do You Think You Are? launches on BBC One and iPlayer in spring 2025. Produced by Wall to Wall Media, ...

Koch Hall of Human Origins,” which opened 15 years ago. Smithsonian's Human Origins Program. What does it mean to be human ...

Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels ...

A fossil of a partial face from a human ancestor is the oldest in western Europe, archaeologists reported Wednesday. The incomplete skull — a section of the left cheek bone and upper jaw – was ...

Since Lucy is a shared ancestor for chimpanzees as well, we also morphed Australopith and modern human and chimpanzee skeletal material, using an analytical technique called geometric morphometrics.

Some researchers have also linked Australopithecine anatomy to an, as yet unknown, knuckle-walking common ancestor of humans ... the complete skeleton of Lucy, using 3D modelling.

Australopithecus afarensis is one of the best-known early human ancestors dating from 2.9-3.9 million years ago. The partially complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton Lucy, or Dinkʼinesh (Amharic ...

An ancestor of the bacteria responsible for plague has been found in the tooth of a sheep that lived nearly 4,000 years ago in a Bronze Age human settlement, scientists report in a new preprint study.

Researchers have now documented chimps coming up with rudimentary wooden spears, and capuchin monkeys of South America (unintentionally) producing stone flakes that were identical to those produced by ...