This week, a world-first study has found “sex reversal” is surprisingly common among wild Australian bird species, Gabon’s ...

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

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

Dental remains dating back 300,000 years, which were discovered at a well-known Chinese archaeological site, have revealed ...

An unidentified early hominin tooth fossil was uncovered in Ethiopia, indicating that two lineages of early hominins ...

Modern humans emerged roughly 300,000 years ago, but our genus Homo is much older. So what's the oldest human species on ...

The teeth also confirm that there were at least four types of hominins throughout East Africa at the time, with a fifth ...

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

The mystery of human evolution is nowhere close to being resolved. Every new discovery not only peels off the layer of truth but also brings forth a plethora of questions. The recent ...

Researchers have unearthed tooth fossils in Ethiopia dating to about 2.65 million years ago of a previously unknown species ...

NPR's Elissa Nadworny speaks with Elena Zavala of the University of California, Berkeley, about new research showing how homo sapiens and Neanderthals interacted and may have even interbred. About ...

If ancient humans with brains a third the size of our own buried their dead, as some archaeologists are claiming, then our species may be less special than we thought ...