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

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

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

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

Fossilized teeth discovered in Ethiopia have revealed a new-to-science species of Australopithecus, a genus of early hominins ...

In the dry, rugged badlands of Ethiopia’s Afar Region, a team of scientists has uncovered fossils that could change how you ...

Researchers have unearthed tooth fossils in Ethiopia dating to about 2.65 million years ago of a previously unknown species ...

NPR's Elissa Nadworny speaks with Elena Zavala of the University of California, Berkeley, about new research showing how homo sapiens and Neanderthals interacted and may have even interbred. About ...

If ancient humans with brains a third the size of our own buried their dead, as some archaeologists are claiming, then our ...

New research on ancient teeth from China suggests humans and Homo erectus interbreeding shaped early Asian populations.

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