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

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 ...

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

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

Fossil teeth unearthed in Ethiopia suggest two distinct human ancestor species lived alongside each other between 2.6 and 2.8 ...

Scientists have discovered that a gene called MUC19, inherited from Denisovans through ancient interbreeding, may have played a vital role in helping Indigenous ancestors adapt as they migrated into ...

Ancient teeth found in Ethiopia belong to a never-before-seen species in the Australopithecus genus of human ancestors ...

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

Is it possible that a previously unknown human species or subspecies roamed in Europe without us realizing until now? In this ...

A remarkable discovery was described in a paper published last fall: an entirely new human-like species, somewhere between humans and Neanderthals. The entire discovery was made possible by DNA ...

While the process via which different types of neurons are produced, also known as neurogenesis, has been the focus of ...