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 ...

On 15 August, a plane arrived in Prague carrying fossils of human ancestors over three million years old. This remarkable collection includes the fossils of Lucy, a female Australopithecus afarensis, ...

Neanderthals still shared the Earth with our ancestors. Recent discoveries are challenging our linear view of human evolution ...

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

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 ...

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

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.

Australopithecus afarensis were an early human ancestor. Melnikov Dmitriy/Shutterstock We modelled how early human ancestors ran – and found they were surprisingly slow ...