New fossil evidence out of Africa strongly suggests that two species of hominin coexisted with each other over one million ...

Ancient human relatives moved diverse stones over substantial distances, researchers report, revealing a surprisingly high degree of forward planning 600,000 years earlier than experts previously ...

(CNN) — Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same ...

New dating reveals fossil is older than a skeleton found in Ethiopia. The Little Foot skull is pictured. Purdue University/Courtesy University of the Witwatersrand — -- One of the earliest human ...

In this 4.4-million-year-old skeleton, scientists may have found the missing step between climbing and walking.

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