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

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

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

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

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 ...

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, ...

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

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 ...