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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A newly published study has found that males of some of our earliest known ancestors were significantly larger than females. The pronounced difference in body size present in both Australopithecus ...

The uniform pitting appears regularly in both eastern and southern Africa Paranthropus, and also in the earliest eastern African Australopithecus teeth dating back around 3 million years.

Australopithecus afarensis were an early human ancestor. Melnikov Dmitriy/Shutterstock We modelled how early human ancestors ran – and found they were surprisingly slow ...

The Australopithecus africanus specimen is the oldest hominin analyzed for sex using palaeoproteomics.