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

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

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

Our species’ origins story comes from North Africa, to be exact, the country of Morocco. When the researchers first came ...

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

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

An ancient skull has finally shown us what the Denisovans looked like. Now it turns out they, not Neanderthals, might be our ...

As such, he named the Neanderthal Thorin after the Tolkien character. “Thorin in the Hobbit is one of the last dwarf kings ...

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

An anthropologist highlights the revolutionary role of the practice, which was often led by women, and was just as crucial to ...

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