In 2008, 9-year-old Matthew Berger was just out walking his dog when he tripped over what he thought was a rock. What he actually discovered was far more significant—a nearly 2-million-year-old fossil ...

New findings reveal the geological age, context, and anatomy of hominin fossils discovered at the Ledi-Geraru Research Project in Ethiopia. Although scientists have uncovered much of the story of ...

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From the first primates 85 million years ago to Homo sapiens 300,000 years ago, our lineage spans countless branches of ...

These files consist of 3D scans of historical objects in the collections of the Smithsonian and may be downloaded by you only for non-commercial, educational, and ...

Modern humans, technically called Homo sapiens, are the only surviving species of the genus Homo, which also includes extinct close cousins such as Homo neanderthalensis and Homo erectus. The oldest ...

The first example of Paranthropus was discovered in South Africa by Dr Robert Broom in 1938. Its name means “beside man” and reflects the fact that it shared a direct ancestor (known as ...