Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologists uncovered teeth from an ancient human ancestor in Ethiopia's Afar Region. - Amy Rector/Virginia Commonwealth ...

Leo Youngdahl was hoping to find one of his favorite fossils when he turned over a rock at a Nebraska park. Instead, he ...

More than a million years ago, on a hot savanna teeming with wildlife near the shore of what would someday become Lake Turkana in Kenya, two completely different species of hominins may have passed ...

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A rare assemblage of micro- and macro-fossils found in a roadside outcrop in South China, featuring thin ribbons, branching ...

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(CNN) — Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same ...