On 15 August, a plane arrived in Prague carrying fossils of human ancestors over three million years old. This remarkable collection includes the fossils of Lucy, a female Australopithecus afarensis, ...

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

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

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

Humans are walkers, and we're really good at it. Other creatures can walk on two legs - chimpanzees, for example, walk with bent knees and bent hips, kind of like ...

An international team of scientists has made an extraordinary discovery in Ethiopia’s Ledi-Geraru region: new fossils that ...

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 human ancestor fossil known as Lucy has left Ethiopia for display in a European museum. Lucy’s skeleton, which is 40% ...

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