ONE of our closest long-lost relatives may never have existed. The fossils of Australopithecus sediba, which promised to rewrite the story of human evolution, may actually be the remains of two ...

The nearly complete brain of the ancient human relative "Little Foot" shows this ancient hominin had a small brain with a combination of ape-like and human-like features. Hominins include modern and ...

Mineral deposits found on the fossilized remains of Australopithecus sediba could be early human skin. (Courtesy Lee Berger and the University of the Witwatersrand) The 2.2-million-year-old fossils of ...