Researchers say recently discovered teeth come from a previously undiscovered species of Australopithecus, adding to our understanding of human evolution. Maybe you've seen the T-shirts or the mugs, ...

Until now, at least 14 different species have been assigned to the genus Homo since it emerged in Ethiopia some 2.8 million years ago, revealing branching evolutionary stories of survival, intermixing ...

A discovery in northern Kenya hints that two extinct species that were our ancient relatives shared the same habitat and possibly interacted. A trackway of footprints found in northern Kenya is ...

Footprints from two different types of ancient primates related to humans—one of them a human ancestor—were likely left within hours of each other along the shoreline of a lake in what is now Kenya.

Archaeologists uncovered teeth from an ancient human ancestor in Ethiopia's Afar Region. - Amy Rector/Virginia Commonwealth University Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long ...

A deep excavation in Indonesia has uncovered evidence that modern humans and an older hominin species used the same cave, possibly within overlapping periods. The finding comes from a long-running dig ...

Maybe you've seen the T-shirts or the mugs, the silhouette of an ape standing up straighter and straighter, finally morphing into a modern coffee-drinking man. Scientists have long known human ...