It's called Australopithecus sediba, which means "southern ape, wellspring." It lived about 2 million years ago, and it both climbed in trees and walked upright.

Humans' closest relatives are other apes, such as chimpanzees and bonobos. In fact, we share nearly 99% of the same genes, or letters in our DNA, with chimpanzees.

The fact that it is now judged that the elephants went their separate ways in the same place and at about the same time we humans diverged from our ape brethren may of course be a coincidence. Or, as ...

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We looked at fossil teeth from hominins (humans and our closest extinct relatives) from the Omo Valley in Ethiopia, where we can see traces of more than 2 million years of human evolution, as well ...

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If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

For over a century, scientists have puzzled over a fundamental mystery in our evolutionary history: how did mammals go from ...

Paleontology may be entering another great era of discovery: characterized by serial misidentification in decades past.