The traditional labels Homo, Australopithecus and Paranthropus may no longer match the tangled relationships revealed by the ...

The human family tree may be due for a major rewrite. Researchers argue that Australopithecus and Paranthropus should be ...

A fascinating new discovery has emerged from Ethiopia’s Ledi-Geraru Research Area, where researchers uncovered fossilized teeth that challenge our understanding of early human evolution. According to ...

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Researchers have uncovered fossils belonging to a previously unknown ancient human relative. And they may have lived in the same time and place as the earliest-known members of the genus Homo, from ...

Recent advances in our understanding of human evolution challenge the way we currently name and classify our ancestors, ...

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 2008, 9-year-old Matthew Berger was just out walking his dog when he tripped over what he thought was a rock. What he actually discovered was far more significant—a nearly 2-million-year-old fossil ...

Learn more about the handful of tooth fossils that complicate the history of humans in northeastern Ethiopia. Nestled between the Ledi and Geraru rivers in the Afar Region of Ethiopia, the Ledi-Geraru ...