On Valentine’s Day in 2018, a team of scientists walked across a flat expanse in the badlands of northeastern Ethiopia, scanning the ground for fossils. An eagle-eyed field assistant, Omar Abdulla, ...

A timeless question has always fascinated scientists who study the past. Which comes first, the new behavior or the physical tool that perfects it? Do you change how you live and then evolve the body ...

An ASU research team has discovered 13 ancient human teeth in Ethiopia, dating back to 2.6 to 2.8 million years ago, that appear to be different from any previously known species. According to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Australopithecus afarensis (left), Homo rudolfensis (center), and Homo ergaster (right) evolved different dental structures to ...

"This edited volume is based on a Dental Paleoanthropology symposium held in May 2005 at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, germany"--P. xv. Dental evolution and dental ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." “This new research shows that the image many of us have in our minds of an ape to a Neanderthal to a ...

In 1758, Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus gave humans a scientific name: Homo sapiens, which means "wise human" in Latin. Although Linnaeus grouped humans with other apes, it was English biologist ...

Scientists in Ethiopia unearthed pieces of 2.65 million-year-old fossilized teeth belonging to two members of a newly discovered Homo species that could challenge previously accepted understandings of ...

Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to unravel in 2025. Analysis of DNA extracted from the fossil electrified the ...

Teeth provide a wealth of information about the lives of Iron Age Italians, according to a study published in the open-access journal PLOS One by Roberto Germano of Sapienza University of Rome, Italy ...