Scientists retrieved proteins from six teeth unearthed in China that reveal a potential link between Homo erectus and later ...

Oldest hybrid found: Protein analysis of 400,000-year-old Homo erectus teeth from China shows interbreeding with Denisovans, ...

Scientists from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have ...

(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 ...

Ethiopian researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery that fundamentally challenges our understanding of human evolution by uncovering fossil evidence of a previously unknown species that ...

Learn how fossil evidence reveals the repeatable way early humans accessed, processed, and shared meat.

We know that Homo sapiens weren't the only humans to walk the Earth, but a reconstruction of one ancestor is leaving ...