More than 3 million years after she died, the fossil of a tiny female toddler is providing a unique look at how the children of our early human ancestors lived. Her nickname is Selam, which means ...

FILE - The framed hominid fossil "Lucy" is seen at a exhibition at the Ethiopian Natural History Museum in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2006. (AP Photo/Les Neuhaus, file) ...

Scientists have discovered that ancient human babies had special toes that they used to hold on to their mothers and climb trees, though they were also capable of walking on their two feet. The ...

An ancient human ancestor dubbed Selam was written about in a paper published this week in Science Advances. This very young Australopithecus afarensis's foot is the oldest hominin foot ever found ...

This is the dorsal view of the complete right shoulder blade of Selam (Australopithecus afarensis). Each black or white section in the scale bar equals 1 cm. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...

The 3.18-million-year-old bone fragments of human ancestor Lucy, which rarely leave Ethiopia, went on display in Prague on Monday, with the Czech prime minister hailing the fossils' "first ever" ...