The names scientists give to humanity’s ancient relatives are more than labels. They encode a story about who counts as close ...

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

Kenyanthropus platyops was identified from fossils found near Lake Turkana in Kenya dating to around 3.5 million years ago.

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

Ethiopian researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery that fundamentally challenges our understanding of human evolution by uncovering fossil evidence of a previously unknown species that ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologists uncovered teeth from an ancient human ancestor in Ethiopia's Afar Region. - Amy Rector/Virginia Commonwealth ...

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

The earth doesn’t give up its secrets easily – not even in the “Cradle of Humankind” in South Africa, where a wealth of fossils relating to human evolution have been found. For decades, scientists ...

New fossil discoveries are reshaping scientists’ understanding of a pivotal chapter in human evolution, revealing that several human ancestor lineages lived side by side nearly 3 million years ago.

One hundred years ago, the discovery of a skull in South Africa's North West province altered our understanding of human evolution. The juvenile skull was dubbed the Taung Child by Raymond Dart, an ...

Scientists say they have solved the mystery of the Burtele foot, a set of 3.4 million-year-old bones found in Ethiopia in 2009. The fossils, along with others unearthed more recently, have now been ...