Lucy and Selam, 3-million-year-old fossils, will be displayed in Prague’s National Museum from August 25, their first-ever ...

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

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

Lucy was recovered in Ethiopia in 1974 from what was an ancient lake near fossilized remains of crocodiles, turtle eggs and ...

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.

Fossil teeth unearthed in Ethiopia suggest two distinct human ancestor species lived alongside each other between 2.6 and 2.8 ...

A newly published study has found that males of some of our earliest known ancestors were significantly larger than females. The pronounced difference in body size present in both Australopithecus ...

The uniform pitting appears regularly in both eastern and southern Africa Paranthropus, and also in the earliest eastern African Australopithecus teeth dating back around 3 million years.