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

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

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

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 ...

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

Shamahi, host of NOVA's ambitious five-part series, Human, which captures Homo Sapiens' 300,000 year journey from underdog to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers have unearthed tooth fossils in Ethiopia dating to about 2.65 million years ago of a previously unknown species ...

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