Fresh fossil evidence from Ethiopia shows early Homo lived alongside a newly identified Australopithecus species nearly 2.8 million years ago. This finding challenges the traditional idea of a single, ...

Archaeologists uncovered teeth from an ancient human ancestor in Ethiopia's Afar Region. - Amy Rector/Virginia Commonwealth University Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long ...

New fossil discoveries in Africa are transforming our understanding of Australopithecus and its place in human evolution. Evidence now shows multiple species coexisted with early Homo, challenging the ...

Australopithecus afarensis© "Australopithecus afarensis" by Rod Waddington is licensed under BY-SA 2.0. Natural history is a difficult thing to conceptualize. You’ve got eons of undocumented progress, ...

Scientists in Ethiopia unearthed pieces of 2.65 million-year-old fossilized teeth belonging to two members of a newly discovered Homo species that could challenge previously accepted understandings of ...

(Reuters) - The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances such as increased brain size. But scientists have struggled to ...

Researchers have uncovered fossils belonging to a previously unknown ancient human relative. And they may have lived in the same time and place as the earliest-known members of the genus Homo, from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Sterkfontein caves have yielded many hominin fossil discoveries. - Emmanuel Croset/AFP/Getty Images Scientists can now come ...

Scientists say they have solved the mystery of the Burtele foot, a set of 3.4 million-year-old bones found in Ethiopia in 2009. The fossils, along with others unearthed more recently, have now been ...

Arizona State University research scientists discover evidence of a new species of hominid that walked east African grasslands 2.6 million years ago. The discovery could offer new clues about a ...

Scientists have finally come face-to-face with an ancient human ancestor called Little Foot. A new digital reconstruction reveals the visage of one of our oldest close human relatives, researchers ...