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After 20 years of slow, careful excavation, the world's most complete skeleton of an ancient human ancestor has just been unveiled. It belongs to the genus Australopithecus, and it's 3.67 million years old.
While many hominid or human ancestor skeletons have been discovered that date back millions of years, the oldest modern human (Homo sapiens) skeletons are significantly more recent. Research suggests that Homo sapiens only appeared about 200,000 to 300,000 years ago.
Fossils of early humans from a South African cave are 3.4 million to 3.6 million years old, a million years older than previously suspected.
"It was a hominin skeleton from a geological layer that was estimated at that time to be older than 3 million years. ... the oldest known human fossil—a 2.5-million-year-old skull recovered from ...
Some of the oldest human remains ever unearthed are the Omo One bones found in Ethiopia. For decades, their precise age has been debated, but a new study argues they're around 233,000 years...
Assembling "Little Foot," the oldest hominid skeleton ever found in Southern Africa, was an effort that took more than 20 years. Learn how your family history is connected to the human...
Scientists today announced the discovery of the oldest fossil skeleton of a human ancestor. The find reveals that our forebears underwent a previously unknown stage of evolution more than a million...