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

Afar region in Ethiopia reveals a fascinating discovery. Fossils of multiple human ancestor species are unearthed. These species coexisted about 2.6 to 2.8 million years ago. This challenges old views ...

A special Ethiopian Airlines flight from Addis Ababa brought Lucy, the famous 3.2 million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis fossil, to Prague's Václav Havel Airport.

Arizona State University researchers unearthed fossils in Ethiopia that may have belonged to a previously undiscovered ...

The mystery of human evolution is nowhere close to being resolved. Every new discovery not only peels off the layer of truth but also brings forth a plethora of questions. The recent ...

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 ...

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