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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Shamahi, host of NOVA's ambitious five-part series, Human, which captures Homo Sapiens' 300,000 year journey from underdog to ...

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

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

Fossil teeth unearthed in Ethiopia suggest two distinct human ancestor species lived alongside each other between 2.6 and 2.8 ...

"Truly dramatic changes require a longer time, of course. We are not going to grow wings or gills in less than millions of years, and 50,000 years ago we were anatomically modern humans." Jason ...