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While hunting for fossils in Ethiopia’s Afar Triangle on November 24, 1974, paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson and graduate student Tom Gray stumbled upon the partial remains of a previously unknown species of ape-like hominid. Nicknamed “Lucy,” the...

The mass media is buzzing after the discovery of a new species of human (allegedly) has been made public. Scientists have discovered this new species, Homo naledi, as they call it, “a new species” of human ancestor deep in a South African cave, adding...

Digging through the world’s oldest graveyard with African paleontologists. Two hammers, two shovels, four rifles. They carried their own tools. Zeresenay Alemseged, a young and driven Ethiopian fossil hunter, joined by four armed soldiers and a government...

The Huffington Post, Meredith Melnick (@MeredithCM), the Health Director for the publication, recently informed the readers of a paper published in December 2014’s issue of The Quarterly Review of Biology, a review paper examining the evolution of human...

Lucy's fall Perimortem fractures in Lucy suggest mortality from fall out of tall tree | Nature. About 3 million years ago a creature midway between a chimpanzee-like ape and a human being fell out of a tree and died of her injuries. This creature...