An international team of paleontologists has gained new insights about human ancestors from the Ledi-Geraru region of Africa. The teeth fossil findings suggest that two different hominin species — ...

A newly documented species, called Australopithecus sediba, was an upright walker that shared many physical traits with the earliest known Homo species -- and its introduction into the fossil record ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The face of an ancient human ancestor that lived 3.8 million years ago ...

Fossils retrieved from an underground cave in South Africa may represent a previously unknown species of the human genus, Homo. The fossils come from at least 15 individuals recovered from a ...

Thirteen hominin teeth have been discovered in Ethiopia in layers of volcanic ash between 2.6 and 2.8 million years old. The researchers think some of the teeth belong to one of the earliest members ...

Little Foot is one of the oldest known hominins in southern Africa. This almost complete skeleton, belonging to the genus Australopithecus, dates back more than 3 million years. It was found in 1994 ...

Scientists get their teeth into A. deyiremeda fossils. Credit: Laura Dempsey There are few things more exciting to a palaeontologist than the discovery of a new species. Work will now begin to try to ...

Ethiopian researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery that fundamentally challenges our understanding of human evolution by uncovering fossil evidence of a previously unknown species that ...

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Researchers have uncovered fossils belonging to a previously unknown ancient human relative. And they may have lived in the same time and place as the earliest-known members of the genus Homo, from ...