The story of human origins — a saga unfolding over millions of years — is continually being rewritten. Few landscapes have ...

Paranthropus had distinctive traits that make them a key part of our evolutionary story. This video explains their ...

Protein evidence reveals hidden variation in P. robustus. The species may be more complex than once believed. For close to a ...

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

In the dry, rugged badlands of Ethiopia’s Afar Region, a team of scientists has uncovered fossils that could change how you ...

In southwestern Kenya more than 2.6 million years ago, ancient humans wielded an array of stone tools—known collectively as ...

The find suggests that as many as four different hominin lineages lived in eastern Africa between 2.5 million and 3 million ...

New research finds early human ancestors during the Stone Age were more picky about the rocks they used for making tools than ...

Archaeologists previously discovered similar rocks that hominins transported to a separate, 2-million-year-old site on the ...

By Stephen Beech Man's ancestors transported stones over long distances to craft tools 2.6 million years ago - 600,000 years ...

The new finds reinforced that human evolution was more of a tangled-up bush. Different species and different branches of the ...

A set of teeth discovered in Ethiopia likely belonged to a previously unidentified species of early human-like ancestors.