When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the ...

Recent fossil discoveries lend credence to the fascinating proposition that non-human species may have coexisted alongside ...

This is because the new analysis of the craniums also puts the Denisovans as the most closely related extinct human species ...

Researchers say recently discovered teeth come from a previously undiscovered species of Australopithecus, adding to our understanding of human evolution.

A badly crushed cranium unearthed decades ago from a riverbank in central China that once defied classification is now shaking up the human family tree, according to a new analysis. Scientists ...

Ancient teeth found in Ethiopia belong to a never-before-seen species in the Australopithecus genus of human ancestors ...

Paleoanthropologists identified the early human based on molars that are several million years old.

Archaeologists uncovered teeth from an ancient human ancestor in Ethiopia's Afar Region. - Amy Rector/Virginia Commonwealth University Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long ...

(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 ...