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

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

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

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

Lucy was recovered in Ethiopia in 1974 from what was an ancient lake near fossilized remains of crocodiles, turtle eggs and ...

A team of researchers led by ASU found strange fossils in Ethiopia. They believe they've discovered a new species related to ...

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

A set of teeth discovered in Ethiopia likely belonged to a previously unidentified species of early human-like ancestors.