Plants have been part of our diet as long as meat has, with new evidence showing that Neanderthals, early Homo sapiens and ...
A 3.4-million-year-old fossil foot reveals that two early hominin species lived together - A. deyiremeda and A. afarensis.
The human evolutionary tree can be complicated—but understanding where hominids end and hominins begin reveals how we fit ...
A mega-catalog of 1,231 fossils reveals that Homo was never a rare species in Omo-Turkana and rewrites the history of our ...
The discovery of Kenyanthropus platyops in Kenya’s Lake Turkana region has forced scientists to rethink the human lineage.
Today the deserts of the Arabian peninsula are inhospitable - but 100,000 years ago the area was full of animals and ancient humans ...
Newfound fossils in modern-day Ethiopia suggest that the mysterious foot belonged to a recently named species, Australopithecus deyiremeda. The finding could alter the story of human evolution ...
Lucy might be one of the most iconic human ancestors, but she had a neighboring species that has gone unidentified—until now.