Modern humans emerged roughly 300,000 years ago, but our genus Homo is much older. So what's the oldest human species on ...

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

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

An unidentified early hominin fossil that might be a new species confirms that Australopithecus and Homo species lived in the ...

The Denisovans are the first species of archaic humans that have been discovered based on their DNA. Were they a race of ...

In this video I am going to look into what fossils can reveal to us about the hybridization that occurred with early humans ...

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 ...

A new human species has been identified from 2.65-million-year-old fossils found in Ethiopia, reshaping views on our ...

The new finds reinforced that human evolution was more of a tangled-up bush. Different species and different branches of the ...

A new study found that a gene passed down from extinct archaic humans provided an adaptive advantage for Indigenous people of ...