Close to an previous mining city in Central Europe, identified for its picturesque turquoise-blue quarry water, lay Rudapithecus. For 10 million years, the fossilized ape waited in Rudabánya, Hungary, so as to add its story to the origins of how people advanced. What Rudabánya yielded was a pelvis -- among ...

First ever endocast reconstruction of the almost full mind of the hominin often called Little Foot reveals a small mind combining ape-like and human-like options. MicroCT scans of the Australopithecus fossil often called Little Foot reveals that the mind of this historic human relative was small and reveals options which ...