Some adults do indeed have more than 206 bones. These extras, known as accessory bones or supernumerary bones, may occur when ...

The festive movie season is upon us, and one of my perennial favourites is Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. I will die on this hill: it is better than the original.

Little Foot, one of the world’s most complete hominin fossils, may be a new species of human ancestor, according to research that raises questions about our evolutionary past. Publicly unveiled in ...

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 ...

Implications for human evolutionary history Little Foot, known formally as StW 573, remains the most complete ancient hominin in the fossil record. Dr. Martin's team is the first to have challenged ...

One of the world’s most complete early human fossils, known as Little Foot, may represent a previously unidentified species of human ancestor, according to a new Australian-led study that challenges ...

One of the most complete human ancestor fossils ever found could be an entirely new species, according to a new study. The fossil, found in South Africa’s Sterkfontein Caves in 1998 and dubbed “the ...