The framed hominid fossil "Lucy," is seen at a exhibition at the Ethiopian Natural History Museum in the Ethiopian capital of ...

Hundreds of stone tools discovered in Kenya have revealed that human relatives traveled long distances to find raw material.

Connecting tubes between bacteria and a kind of microbe called archaea may reflect a symbiotic relationship that led to ...

In the dry, rugged badlands of Ethiopia’s Afar Region, a team of scientists has uncovered fossils that could change how you ...

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

But a novel technique is allowing us to peer back further than DNA's expiration date in Africa, to answer long-standing ...

Fossilized teeth discovered in Ethiopia have revealed a new-to-science species of Australopithecus, a genus of early hominins that lived from the Pliocene to the Early Pleistocene ...

The teeth fossil findings suggest that two different hominin species — Australopithecus and the earliest members of our own genus Homo — coexisted there between 2.6 and 2.8 million years ago.

New findings published in the journal Nature document the geological age, context and anatomy of hominin fossils discovered at the Ledi-Geraru Research Project, Ethiopia.

Ancient teeth found in Ethiopia belong to a never-before-seen species in the Australopithecus genus of human ancestors ...

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

It was not until 700,000 years later that evolution finally caught up in the form of longer molars like those that let modern humans easily chew tough plant fibers.