Geraru, Ethiopia, that hominin ancestors lived alongside each other reinforce the idea that evolution wasn’t a straight line.

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

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

But a novel technique is allowing us to peer back further than DNA's expiration date in Africa, to answer long-standing ...

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

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

Hundreds of stone tools discovered in Kenya have revealed that human relatives traveled long distances to find raw material.

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

Thousands of years ago, ancient humans undertook a treacherous journey, crossing hundreds of miles of ice over the Bering ...

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...

Ancient viral impact on human development and evolution The new study focused on a group of TE sequences called MER11 found within primate genomes.