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 ...

The hominin family tree is more like a complicated, tangled bramble. Homo sapiens is the only member of the genus left today, but in millennia past, the world was inhabited by multiple related Homo ...