The fossilized chompers are evidence of a previously unknown hominin that coexisted with the earliest humans 2.8 million ...

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

Just a handful of ancient teeth uncovered in Ethiopia is rewriting what we know about human origins. The fossils, dated ...

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

The new finds reinforced that human evolution was more of a tangled-up bush. Different species and different branches of the ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

Scientists are studying five Turkish siblings with Unertan syndrome and how genetics and environment influence their ...

The mystery of human evolution is nowhere close to being resolved. Every new discovery not only peels off the layer of truth but also brings forth a plethora of questions. The recent ...

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

An anthropologist highlights the revolutionary role of the practice, which was often led by women, and was just as crucial to ...

Fossils in Ethiopia reveal a new Australopithecus species and oldest-known Homo, showing multiple early human ancestors lived ...

Once dismissed as “junk” DNA, ancient viruses embedded in the human genome play a key role in early human development, ...