New research finds early human ancestors during the Stone Age were more picky about the rocks they used for making tools than previously thought ...

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

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

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Hundreds of stone tools discovered in Kenya have revealed that human relatives traveled long distances to find raw material.

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.

Fossils that for a long time represented the oldest dated Homo sapiens remains but after a while were being perceived as falling just outside of the umbrella of anatomically modern human and ...

The modern Homo Sapiens didn’t just follow other human species; they overlapped with them. Homo sapiens lived alongside Neanderthals and Denisovans, sometimes for thousands of years.

Cave dwelling, clothing and sunscreen may be the reason Homo sapiens outlasted the Neanderthals, a new study suggests. Neanderthals became extinct about 40,000 years ago, leaving modern humans as ...