The fossilized remains were discovered in the Sterkfontein Caves in South Africa, a site renowned for its wealth of hominid ...

In Ethiopia, they found hominid skull, jaw, and arm bones plus a few teeth that dated back to 4.4 million years ago. That would make these the oldest hominid ancestors yet identified, and the most ...

Prof. Lee Berger of the University of the Witwatersrand with his nine-year-old son Matthew pose near the remains of an hominid, may be one of the most significant palaeoanthropological discoveries in ...

They suggested that it lived 1.75 million years agoÑmaking it by far the oldest hominid yet found. The Leakey's finds were spectacular and brought popular attention to the field of paleoanthropology.

The previously oldest burials were found in the Middle ... a tree-climbing Stone Age hominid. Homo naledi had tool-wielding hands with curved fingers and feet made for walking also with curved ...

Hominid footprints found on Crete date back 5.6 million years, making them by far the oldest ever discovered in Europe.

The hominid was named after the Beatles' song "Lucy in the Sky ... aged between 11 and 13—considered an adult for this ...

Erin Wayman is a science and human evolution blogger for Hominid Hunting ... some anthropologists say Home to Lucy, Ardi, the oldest stone tools, the first fossils of modern humans and many ...