New Research: Creature Combined Human, Ape Traits Researchers Thursday offered the most complete view yet of fossil skeletons from a forerunner of humankind named Australopithecus sediba that ...

The first two skeletons removed from the pit were a young ... is in a region already so famous for its ancient human fossils that it is often referred to as the Cradle of Humankind.

UNBELIEVABLE three-million-year-old razor-sharp vegetable peelers used by the world’s oldest humans have been discovered. The ...

The ape had arms suited to hanging in the trees, but human-like legs ... The male has the most complete skeleton, which resembles that of modern-day bonobos. It was about one metre in height ...

Kenya's Homa peninsula is home to various artefacts representative of early humanity - including the famous remains of Lucy - a half-ape-half-human. In November 1974, the skeleton of a small ...

Ardi is a female human-like fossilised skeleton that dates from 4.4 million ... but possessed a relatively small ape-like skull. Lucy's foot bones show that she had similar feet to modern humans ...

The fossil record, along with studies of human and ape DNA, indicate that humans shared a common ancestor with chimpanzees and bonobos sometime around 6 million years ago (mya). We begin this ...