Paleoanthropologists have announced the world's most complete skeleton of Homo habilis, a human ancestor that lived more than ...

Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a ...

A new analysis of enigmatic skulls from the Republic of Georgia suggest that Homo erectus wasn't the only human species to ...

A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an analysis of modern DNA found that we come from not one but two ancestral populations—ones that drifted apart and later reconnected long ...

Scientists working in Ethiopia's Afar Region have made discoveries that rewrite our understanding of early human history. For ...

Here are 10 major findings about human ancestors and our close ancient relatives that scientists announced in 2025. A handful of teeth found at the Ledi-Geraru site in Ethiopia suggest that diverse ...

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 ...

Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in ...

Ancient bones discovered in a cave in Casablanca, Morocco, could fill in some of the blanks about human evolution.