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

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

New Ethiopian fossils show early Homo and Australopithecus lived together, revealing a complex human evolution story.

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

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

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

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

An unidentified early hominin tooth fossil was uncovered in Ethiopia, indicating that two lineages of early hominins ...

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

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

Homo naledi, an extinct human relative, buried dead and carved symbols long before modern humans, new research at the Rising Star cave system in South Africa found.

A non-human creature dubbed Homo naledi was discovered nearly a decade ago — and researchers now believe the creature may have had a head start on Homo sapiens, or humans, in using fire as a tool.