Foot bones from Burtele suggest a hominin with an opposable big toe lived in Ethiopia 3.4 Ma. Image ©The Cleveland Museum of Natural History via LiveScience.
Foot bones from Burtele suggest a hominin with an opposable big toe lived in Ethiopia 3.4 Ma. Image ©The Cleveland Museum of Natural History via LiveScience.
Descriptions of fossils from Southwest China have sparked new debate about human evolution in Asia. Photo by Darren Cunroe (via LiveScience).
From a finger bone and a molar, researchers have mapped the genome of newly discovered extinct hominins who lived 30,000 years ago. View the results here.
Learn more about one of the most famous fossils ever found: the 3.2 million year old fossil of "Lucy", a nearly complete fossilized skeleton from the species Australopithecus afarensis. View more of her morphology in the Bone Viewer, or visit eLucy to compare her anatomy with that of a modern human and a modern chimpanzee.
