A foot fossil found in Ethiopia belonged to an ancient human. The finding could knock one of the most famous names in human ...

There were multiple ape-like hominins roaming eastern Africa about three million years ago.

How far back in evolutionary history does kissing go? Through phylogenetic analysis, an international team of scientists ...

Fossils newly discovered in Ethiopia indicate that previously unidentified foot bones belong to the ancient human relative ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A fossil find adds another twig to the human evolutionary tree, giving further evidence that the well-known “Lucy” species had company in what is now Ethiopia, a new study says. A ...

Scientists have finally cracked the mystery wrapped around 3.4 million-year-old fossils called the “Burtele Foot” which was ...

The Burtele Foot showed that this species was bipedal but still had an opposable big toe, a feature useful for tree climbing ...

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 ...

HUBEI, China — A badly crushed cranium unearthed decades ago from a riverbank in central China that once defied classification is now shaking up the human family tree, according to a new analysis.

Mystery foot belongs to ancient human relative: scientists ...

The three-dimensional shape of a protein can be used to resolve deep, ancient evolutionary relationships in the tree of life, according to a new study. It is the first time researchers use data from ...