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 ...

A rock sitting quietly in a university lab turned out to contain something far more remarkable than anyone realized: what may ...

Humans' near-universal right-handedness, unlike other primates, is now understood. An Oxford study reveals this trait evolved ...

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

A new study suggests humans became overwhelmingly right-handed because of two major evolutionary shifts: walking on two legs ...

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

What started as a regular field trip with his scientist father turned into one of the biggest discoveries in human evolution ...

It is one of the strangest puzzles in human evolution. About 90% of people across every human culture favor their right ...

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

A team led by researchers from the University of Oxford suggests that humans became overwhelmingly right-handed because of two major evolutionary milestones: walking upright and d ...

A newly named crocodile species from Ethiopia likely lived alongside Lucy’s species and dominated the wetlands of Hadar more ...