"This skeleton sheds light on a time period we hadn't understood well before," says Scott W. Simpson, PhD, an associate professor of anatomy at the School of Medicine, who co-authored three of the 11 ...

Excavations in a section of a Bavarian clay pit produced 37 fossils from the ancient ape, dubbed Danuvius guggenmosi ... 15 percent of that creature’s skeleton, including nearly complete ...

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 ...

Lead researcher Tina Lüdecke stands beside "Little Foot," an Australopithecus skeleton thought to be the ... development—during human evolution. Animal resources provide a highly concentrated ...