Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same place ...

A previously unknown species of early human, which lived alongside the famous ancestor known as Lucy, has been discovered in Ethiopia. Anthropologists studied jawbones and teeth found in the ...

The idea that humans evolved from a knuckle-dragging ape, leaving chimpanzees in the Darwinian dust, was crystallised in the famous ‘ascent of man’ image. But ongoing research on a ...

Newly discovered fossils in Kenya suggest that early hominids, the Australopithecus afarensis, were present in far more regions than scientists previously believed. The discovery of fossils in an area ...

The enamel that forms the outer layer of our teeth might seem like an unlikely place to find clues about evolution. But it tells us more than you’d think about the relationships between our fossil ...

It was a traumatic and lingering death. The adult female and young male probably fell through a fissure in a cave roof and remained alive for days or weeks with little or no food before finally ...