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

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

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

Some stone tools found near a river on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi suggest that the first hominins had reached the ...

This prehistoric species remained independent of the Neanderthal lineage in Europe, maintaining a close relationship with ...

The mystery of human evolution is nowhere close to being resolved. Every new discovery not only peels off the layer of truth but also brings forth a plethora of questions. The recent ...

An unidentified early hominin tooth fossil was uncovered in Ethiopia, indicating that two lineages of early hominins ...

If ancient humans with brains a third the size of our own buried their dead, as some archaeologists are claiming, then our species may be less special than we thought ...

Dental remains dating back 300,000 years, which were discovered at a well-known Chinese archaeological site, have revealed ...

This week, a world-first study has found “sex reversal” is surprisingly common among wild Australian bird species, Gabon’s ...

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

Homo naledi, an extinct human relative, buried dead and carved symbols long before modern humans, new research at the Rising Star cave system in South Africa found.