The fossilized chompers are evidence of a previously unknown hominin that coexisted with the earliest humans 2.8 million ...

New research links an ancient DNA sequence to neuron growth, brain-cell balance, and a cognitive flexibility trait that may ...

Just a handful of ancient teeth uncovered in Ethiopia is rewriting what we know about human origins. The fossils, dated ...

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

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

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

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

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 ...

Omar Abdulla, a fossil hunter from Ethiopia, made an important discovery in the Afar region in 2018. He was accompanied by paleontologist Kaye Reed, when they came across several f ...

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

Once dismissed as “junk” DNA, ancient viruses embedded in the human genome play a key role in early human development, ...