During a live demo at this year's CES convention in Las Vegas, Boston Dynamics showed off the unnerving agility of its ...
A new analysis of some fossil bones shows that adaptations for bipedal walking may go back 7 million years in the human family tree.
Human skeletons are often described in neat textbook numbers, but real bodies are far messier and more interesting. Extra ...
Some adults do indeed have more than 206 bones. These extras, known as accessory bones or supernumerary bones, may occur when ...
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Implications for human evolutionary history Little Foot, known formally as StW 573, remains the most complete ancient hominin in the fossil record. Dr. Martin's team is the first to have challenged ...
Australian researchers think the skeleton found in South Africa is not the same species as two found in the same South Africa cave system Little Foot, one of the world’s most complete hominin fossils, ...
Newly uncovered fossils have helped researchers determine that an unusual 3.4-million-year-old hominin foot discovered in 2009 does not belong to Lucy’s species. Instead, the evidence now indicates ...
Scientists say they have solved the mystery of the Burtele foot, a set of 3.4 million-year-old bones found in Ethiopia in 2009. The fossils, along with others unearthed more recently, have now been ...