Science news articles about 'fossil hominid'

... evolutionary chain. Discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2003, controversy has surrounded the fossilized hominid skeletons of the so-called "hobbit people," or Homo floresiensis ever since ...

... modern human-like foot anatomy. To ensure that comparisons made with modern human and other fossil hominid footprints were objective, the Ileret footprints were scanned and digitized by the lead ...

... 2004 was an important year regarding the finds of fossil hominids in the area of the Abocador de Can Mata ... already proposed as the likely sister group of hominids (i.e., the group most closely related ...

Tomorrow's Science will be a special issue reporting tons of new information on the fossil hominid Ardipithecus ramidus ("Ardi"), which is really exciting (though not as much as Darwinius, which was " ...