Denisovans were first discovered as another relation to modern humans in 2010—It turns out they might be our closest relative ...

The pelvis is often called the keystone of upright locomotion. More than any other part of our lower body, it has been ...

But a novel technique is allowing us to peer back further than DNA's expiration date in Africa, to answer long-standing ...

Brain growth slowed down about 300,000 years ago due to energetic and climate pressures, according to a study published in ...

In the deserts of Ethiopia, scientists uncovered fossils showing that early members of our genus Homo lived side by side with ...

An international team from Tel Aviv University and France’s National Centre for Scientific Research announced that a reanalysis of a child’s skull from Skhul Cave on Mount Carmel in Israel provided ...

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

The fossilized chompers are evidence of a previously unknown hominin that coexisted with the earliest humans 2.8 million ...

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors ...

On Valentine’s Day in 2018, a team of scientists walked across a flat expanse in the badlands of northeastern Ethiopia, ...

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

For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as "junk" and considered to serve no real purpose. In a new study ...