A stunning fossil discovery in Ethiopia shows that early Homo and a previously unknown Australopithecus species lived together around 2.6 to 2.8 million years ago. The find overturns the classic ...

(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 ...

In Ethiopia, an international team of researchers has discovered fossil teeth of ancient hominids, which prove that about 3 ...

Kenyanthropus platyops was identified from fossils found near Lake Turkana in Kenya and dated to roughly 3.5 to 3.2 million ...

Oldest Homo fossils: New finds in Ethiopia’s Afar region date to 2.8 million years ago, possibly the earliest known Homo ...

A young boy named Matthew Berger found important fossils in South Africa. These fossils, named Australopithecus sediba, ...

Researchers reveals how walking on two legs and expanding brain size drove the evolution of human right-handedness.

On Valentine’s Day in 2018, a team of scientists walked across a flat expanse in the badlands of northeastern Ethiopia, scanning the ground for fossils. An eagle-eyed field assistant, Omar Abdulla, ...

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 ...