The find suggests that as many as four different hominin lineages lived in eastern Africa between 2.5 million and 3 million years ago ...

A collection of 3-million-year-old bones unearthed 50 years ago in Ethiopia changed our understanding of human origins.

The 3.18-million-year-old bone fragments of human ancestor Lucy, which rarely leave Ethiopia, went on display in Prague on Monday, with the Czech prime minister hailing the fossils' "first ever" ...

comes from Ardipithecus ramidus and is about 4.4 million years old. This species was a hybrid upright walker and tree climber, and bore some humanlike pelvic features. The celebrated fossil called ...

This is a fossil of a baby who died at two years and seven months ... Lucy was dethroned of that status in 1994 following the discovery -- also in Ethiopia -- of Ardi, a female Ardipithecus ramidus ...