Two fossil skeletons found in South Africa reveal a new species of hominid. They may provide an evolutionary link between the early hominid Australopithecus and our own Homo genus. The two fossils ...

Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old hominid whose remains were discovered in Ethiopia on this day 41 years ago, is being celebrated in the form of a Google Doodle. She comes from the Australopithecus ...

An international study changes the view that exposure to the toxic metal lead is largely a post-industrial phenomenon. The ...

Anthropologists Donald Johanson and Tom Gray were walking back through a ravine to their Land Rover on the Hadar site in the Awash Valley in Ethiopia, when Mr Johanson spotted a forearm bone ...

A sculptor's rendering of Lucy when she was alive, displayed at the Houston Museum of Natural Science in Texas (Dave Einsel/Getty Images) The 41st anniversary of the discovery of 'Lucy' has been ...