The Homo teeth—dated to between 2.59 and 2.78 million years old —reinforce the already known antiquity of our genus in the ...

Afar region in Ethiopia reveals a fascinating discovery. Fossils of multiple human ancestor species are unearthed. These species coexisted about 2.6 to 2.8 million years ago. This challenges old views ...

A tiny genetic difference may hold the key to why humans survived while Neanderthals disappeared.

Archaeologists in Poland have uncovered a 70,000-year-old Neanderthal workshop, revealing groundbreaking insights into their ...

Université de Bordeaux and the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography Novosibirsk report initial findings from an ~80 ka ...

Arizona State University researchers unearthed fossils in Ethiopia that may have belonged to a previously undiscovered ...

Ancient tools found on Sulawesi suggest early humans crossed formidable seas over a million years ago, leaving behind mysteries about their identity and evolution. Researchers from Griffith University ...

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

A recent discovery of 2.6 million-year-old stone tools reveals that ancient human relatives were planning ahead and ...

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

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 ...