For the first time, scientists identified the sex of a 3.5-million-year-old Australopithecus africanus using ancient proteins ...

In Ethiopia, they found hominid skull, jaw, and arm bones plus a few teeth that dated back to 4.4 million years ago. That would make these the oldest hominid ancestors yet identified, and the most ...

"The 1.9-million-year-old hominids are in "extraordinary condition", would have known each other, and were possibly related. The adult female was aged in her late 20s or early 30s and the boy between ...

They suggested that it lived 1.75 million years agoÑmaking it by far the oldest hominid yet found. The Leakey's finds were spectacular and brought popular attention to the field of paleoanthropology.

Hominid footprints found on Crete date back 5.6 million years, making them by far the oldest ever discovered in Europe.