Human's Earliest Ancestral Fossil Now Deemed Older by a Million Years Than Originally Believed

Medicine & Technology Jun 29, 2022

Researchers analyzing the Cradle of Humankind, Sterkfontein Caves site discovered that the oldest human ancestor is a million years older than previously believed. Read on to find out how this affects our perception of human evolution and why the dating of the fossils was off.

Primate Human Issa Found With Climbing Abilities Similar to Ape But Walked on Feet

Nov 25, 2021

A new study was able to find missing clues on how primate humans learned to walk in a female Australopithecus fossil named Issa.

Scientists Release "More Accurate" Representations of Ancient Hominids

Apr 06, 2021

Pushing for more accurate depictions of the ancient human ancestors, scientists published new standards for representing extinct hominids in a bid to overcome artistic bias.

Hard Plant Foods Are Included In the Diet of Early Humans, Scientists Say

Jan 20, 2020

Ancient humans are previously thought to not eat woody plants as it will damage their teeth. This new study from Washington University in St. Louis disproves that.

A New Species is named following the Discovery of a 3-Million-Year-Old Jaw Fragment

May 28, 2015

Most of us are familiar with "Lucy," the famous hominid skeleton discovered by Donald Johanson and colleagues back in 1974 along a dried out gully in Ethiopia. Lucy lived over 3 million years ago and was assigned the name Australopithecus afarensis; a species many believe led to the rise of Homo sapiens. But a new discovery may rewrite our origins, for it seems Lucy was not the only type of Australopithecine roaming the African plains so long ago.