Arizona State University researchers unearthed fossils in Ethiopia that may have belonged to a previously undiscovered ...

On 15 August, a plane arrived in Prague carrying fossils of human ancestors over three million years old. This remarkable collection includes the fossils of Lucy, a female Australopithecus afarensis, ...

Neanderthals still shared the Earth with our ancestors. Recent discoveries are challenging our linear view of human evolution ...

New Ethiopian fossils show early Homo and Australopithecus lived together, revealing a complex human evolution story.

Fossilized teeth show that two different kinds of ancient human ancestors coexisted more than 2 million years ago. One of ...

Modern humans emerged roughly 300,000 years ago, but our genus Homo is much older. So what's the oldest human species on ...

A team of researchers led by ASU found strange fossils in Ethiopia. They believe they've discovered a new species related to ...

Lucy was recovered in Ethiopia in 1974 from what was an ancient lake near fossilized remains of crocodiles, turtle eggs and ...

The teeth also confirm that there were at least four types of hominins throughout East Africa at the time, with a fifth ...

A set of teeth discovered in Ethiopia likely belonged to a previously unidentified species of early human-like ancestors.

Fossil teeth unearthed in Ethiopia suggest two distinct human ancestor species lived alongside each other between 2.6 and 2.8 ...