The historian takes a highly readable look at the globalised, interconnected underworld — and how it shapes ‘the upperworld’ ...

Modern humans emerged roughly 300,000 years ago, but our genus Homo is much older. So what's the oldest human species on ...

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

Early human ancestors during the Old Stone Age were more picky about the rocks they used for making tools than previously ...

Researchers have unearthed tooth fossils in Ethiopia dating to about 2.65 million years ago of a previously unknown species ...

A team of international scientists has discovered new fossils at a field site in Africa that indicate Australopithecus, and ...

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.

A team of researchers led by ASU found strange fossils in Ethiopia. They believe they've discovered a new species related to ...

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

New findings published in the journal Nature document the geological age, context and anatomy of hominin fossils discovered at the Ledi-Geraru Research Project, Ethiopia.

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