The names scientists give to humanity’s ancient relatives are more than labels. They encode a story about who counts as close ...

Scientists say they have solved the mystery of the Burtele foot, a set of 3.4 million-year-old bones found in Ethiopia in 2009. The fossils, along with others unearthed more recently, have now been ...

A new study could reshape human evolution by placing Australopithecus and Paranthropus within an expanded genus Homo.

In the deserts of Ethiopia, scientists uncovered fossils showing that early members of our genus Homo lived side by side with a newly identified species of Australopithecus nearly three million years ...

Newly discovered fossils in Ethiopia show that Homo coexisted with Australopithecus 2.6 million years ago, rewriting the timeline of human evolution. Far from a straight line, early human history was ...

The skull of the Taung Child. Bernhard Zipfel/© University of the Witwatersrand, Author provided (no reuse) In the century since the Taung Child was found and described, a great debate has developed ...