The fossilized chompers are evidence of a previously unknown hominin that coexisted with the earliest humans 2.8 million ...

Just a handful of ancient teeth uncovered in Ethiopia is rewriting what we know about human origins. The fossils, dated ...

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

New research links an ancient DNA sequence to neuron growth, brain-cell balance, and a cognitive flexibility trait that may ...

The Homo teeth—dated to between 2.59 and 2.78 million years old —reinforce the already known antiquity of our genus in the ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

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

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

Omar Abdulla, a fossil hunter from Ethiopia, made an important discovery in the Afar region in 2018. He was accompanied by paleontologist Kaye Reed, when they came across several f ...

Once dismissed as “junk” DNA, ancient viruses embedded in the human genome play a key role in early human development, ...

Shifting ancient climates shaped human evolution A new model shows that humans might be the product of stress and adaptation to changing conditions. Philip Kiefer Apr 14, 2022 6:00 AM EDT ...