A recent discovery of 2.6 million-year-old stone tools reveals that ancient human relatives were planning ahead and ...

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

New research finds early human ancestors during the Stone Age were more picky about the rocks they used for making tools than previously thought ...

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 ...

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

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

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.

The teeth fossil findings suggest that two different hominin species — Australopithecus and the earliest members of our own genus Homo — coexisted there between 2.6 and 2.8 million years ago.

Fossils that for a long time represented the oldest dated Homo sapiens remains but after a while were being perceived as falling just outside of the umbrella of anatomically modern human and ...