“Hundreds of fossils representing over a dozen species of Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, and Homo had been found in the Afar ...

A rare fossil discovery in Ethiopia has pushed the known range of Paranthropus hundreds of miles farther north than ever before. The 2.6-million-year-old jaw suggests this ancient relative of humans ...

While it shares features with modern humans, H. habilis also has traits that would have given it an advantage in climbing ...

Hominid footprints found on Crete date back 5.6 million years, making them by far the oldest ever discovered in Europe.

A large comparative study of primate teeth shows that grooves once linked to ancient human tooth-picking can form naturally, while some common modern dental problems appear uniquely human.

In a paper published in Nature, a team led by University of Chicago paleoanthropologist Professor Zeresenay Alemseged reports ...

New fossil evidence from China suggests that some of our vertebrate ancestors had four eyes. The study, published in Nature, ...

The animals' extended lower jaws were seemingly made for scooping, but research over the past few decades has found they ...

A fossilized megalodon tooth has been recovered more than 10,000 feet below the surface of the central Pacific Ocean, marking ...

Learn how a 2.6-million-year-old Paranthropus jaw from Ethiopia’s Afar region is reshaping scientists’ understanding of early ...