Traces of early humans have been found in our backyard, but how much do you know about South Africa's Cradle of Humankind?

Paranthropus boisei, Paranthropus robustus, and Paranthropus aethiopicus are examined as a distinct but debated branch of early human evolution. Their huge molars, powerful jaws, sagittal crests, and ...

A new digital reconstruction of an ancient fossil’s face is reshaping how scientists think about early human relatives in Africa. By virtually “undoing” distortions caused by millions of years ...

Everything we knew about human origins just changed. A bizarre 3.4-million-year-old discovery in the African dirt proves Lucy wasn’t alone, exposing a mysterious second species with a feature experts ...

Little Foot's skull was distorted and damaged, so researchers spent years digitally reassembling the bones to understand what the individual's face might have looked like 3.67 million years ago.

TÜBINGEN, GERMANY—According to a statement released by the University of Tübingen, an international team of researchers who evaluated a fossil femur unearthed at the site of Azmaka in southern ...

(CNN) — Scientists can now come face to face with an early human ancestor nicknamed Little Foot who lived 3.67 million years ago, thanks to digital reconstruction technology. Renowned ...

Digital reconstruction of the face of the Little Foot fossil. Credit: A. Beaudet / CC BY-SA 4.0 More than three million years before ancient civilizations emerged, a small-brained, upright-walking ...

The most complete known Australopithecus fossil, dubbed “Little Foot,” now has a face, albeit a virtual one. Little Foot emerged in South Africa in the 1990s, though it took paleoanthropologist Ron ...