An international research team has unveiled a significant discovery in human paleontology: an exceptionally well-preserved ...

Learn about the most complete Homo habilis fossil ever found, and how this fossil is changing what we know about human ...

Paleoanthropologists have announced the world's most complete skeleton of Homo habilis, a human ancestor that lived more than ...

Since the discovery of the fossil 42 years ago this month, paleontologists have debated whether the 3.2 million-year-old human ancestor, dubbed Lucy, spent all of her time walking on the ground or ...

This image shows the upper and lower limb bones of those adults found in Sima de los Huesos, Atapuerca, Spain. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases ...

This is a 3D model created using a scan of an upper arm (humerus) bone from a prehistoric woman agriculturalist. this bone is from a North African population, and did not feature in the study itself, ...

"Our analysis required well-preserved upper and lower limb bones from the same individual, something very rare in the fossil record." The research team first had a look at Lucy's bone structure during ...

Lucy, our ever-popular human ancestor, may have preferred a tree-dwelling lifestyle, based on bone scans published Wednesday in PLOS ONE. The research adds clarity to early human behavior and suggests ...

Study design: Cross-sectional study comparing a group of active spinal cord injured (SCI) males carefully matched for age, height, and weight with active able-bodied male controls. Objectives: To ...