A new face for ‘Little Foot’, the most complete Australopithecus skeleton to date
A new study reconstructs the 3.7 million-year-old face of Little Foot, the most complete Australopithecus skeleton ever found.
Life in fossil bones: what we can learn from tiny traces of ancient blood chemicals
A new way of analyzing fossils might one day make it possible to describe past habitats as precisely as we can describe modern ones.
The great mucus mystery
Recent Leakey Foundation-supported research shows how a Denisovan gene variant involved in the production of mucus helped people adapt and survive in new environments.
Ancient human relatives transported stones over long distances 600,000 years earlier than previously thought
New Leakey Foundation-supported research finds that ancient human relatives sourced raw materials for tool-making from as far as 8 miles away.
This stone tool is over 1 million years old. How did its maker get to Sulawesi without a boat?
Stone tools dating to at least 1.04 million years ago have been found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. This means early hominins made a major sea crossing from the Asian mainland much earlier than previously thought – and they likely didn’t have any boats.