A fossilized foot discovered in Ethiopia and left unclassified for over a decade has now been linked to a little-known human ...

(Reuters) -Researchers have unearthed tooth fossils in Ethiopia dating to about 2.65 million years ago of a previously unknown species in the human evolutionary lineage, one that lived in the same ...

But this latest discovery seems to challenge that. It appears that Paranthropus had greater dietary flexibility than first interpreted, could adapt to a wide range of environmental conditions and was ...

A previously unknown species of Australopithecus have been discovered in Ethiopia’s Afar region, coexisting with early Homo over 2.6 million years ago—overturning long-standing assumptions about the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A REPLICA of the remains of a more than 3-million-year-old female hominid known as "Lucy" at the National Museum in Addis Ababa ...

In the dry, rugged badlands of Ethiopia’s Afar Region, a team of scientists has uncovered fossils that could change how you picture human evolution. These finds, dating back between 2.6 and 2.8 ...

The legendary “Little Foot” fossil may be an entirely new human ancestor. An international team of scientists led by ...

Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same place ...

March 21 -- A 3.5-million-year-old, flat-faced early human skull, which paleontologists found poking from the crumbling Kenyan earth, could push "Lucy" out of our ancestral family tree. For 20 years, ...

UNLV anthropology professor Brian Villmoare (right, in blue shirt) and colleagues screening at the Ledi-Geraru research site in 2018. The discovery of new fossils and a new species of ancient ancestor ...

Our species, Homo sapiens, has been evolving for more than 300,000 years, but the story of human origins starts much earlier.