What did the face of our ancestors look like three million years ago? Our international team has answered this question by ...

A new digital reconstruction of the face of an early Australopithecus specimen helps add details about the origins of our own ...

Of all the early human ancestor fossils ever found, “Lucy” may be the most famous among examples of Australopithecus, a group ...

A new digital reconstruction of the face of the 3.67‑million‑year‑old Australopithecus fossil, Little Foot, provides new insight into the evolution of the human face.  The new findings, published ...

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 place ...

(Reuters) - The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances such as increased brain size. But scientists have struggled to ...

Images: N. Spassov, D. Youlatos, M. Böhme, R. Bogdanova, L. Hristova, D. Begun The Graecopithecus femur from Azmaka, Bulgaria, (left ...

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, researchers now see a tangled, branching tree with ...

Researchers working in northeastern Ethiopia have discovered remains of a previously unknown branch of humanity. The fossils, which include teeth that date to between 2.8 million and 2.6 million years ...

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 ...