Scientists say they have solved the mystery of the Burtele foot, a set of 3.4 million-year-old bones found in Ethiopia in ...

In 2009, Yohannes Haile-Selassie and his team were combing the desert landscape of Burtele, a paleontological site in the Afar Region of Ethiopia, when Stephanie Melillo found something remarkable: an ...

Fossils newly discovered in Ethiopia indicate that previously unidentified foot bones belong to the ancient human relative ...

Sixteen years ago a group of anthropologists discovered 3.4-million-year-old fossilized foot bones in Ethiopia. While they suspected the foot belonged to an ancient human that likely lived alongside ...

With the help of newly identified bones, an enigmatic 3.4-million-year-old hominin foot found in 2009, is assigned to a species different from that of the famous fossil Lucy providing further proof ...

Two Australopithecus fossils named Lucy and Selam made a rare trip out of Ethiopia for a 60-day display at the National Museum in Prague Hyper-realistic reconstructions of Australopithecus afarensis ...

The brilliant iridescent hues found in ammolite come from tiny air gaps in the fossils’ layers, a new study finds. By Alexa Robles-Gil Millions of years ago, squid-like creatures called ammonites swam ...

Discovered in 1938 in South Africa, Paranthropus robustus has puzzled scientists for nearly a century. It walked upright, had a compact but muscular frame, and was equipped with an oversized jaw built ...

A nine year old boy in South Africa tripped over a rock during a dog walk in 2008 and uncovered bones that scientists now call a key piece in human evolution. This nearly two million year old skeleton ...

A team of scientists investigating early human species in an ancient cave near Johannesburg, South Africa, have revealed that preserved tissue found on a 2-million-year-old fossil may be the oldest ...

When Virgin Galactic’s private spaceship, the VSS Unity, was launched into orbit on September 8, it was carrying a most unique cargo. These were two fossilized bones that belonged to two different ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Are you curious as to how you'd get Pokemon from fossils and amber in Pokemon Legends: Z-A? While you can catch over 200 creatures in the game, a ...