This week, a world-first study has found “sex reversal” is surprisingly common among wild Australian bird species, Gabon’s ...

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

This prehistoric species remained independent of the Neanderthal lineage in Europe, maintaining a close relationship with ...

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

An unidentified early hominin tooth fossil was uncovered in Ethiopia, indicating that two lineages of early hominins ...

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 ...

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

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

A team of international scientists has discovered new fossils at a field site in Africa that indicate Australopithecus, and ...

If ancient humans with brains a third the size of our own buried their dead, as some archaeologists are claiming, then our species may be less special than we thought ...