Scientists say a new, never-before seen species of human ancestor roamed the Earth as recently as one million years ago.

A recent study, published in Nature Communications, provides strong evidence ... human fossils have been found at the site, but the traces left on animal bones indicate human activity. Researchers ...

The work marks an important advance in researchers' ability to reconstruct ancient diets, because it involved developing a new method to look inside tooth enamel for evidence of eating ... For example ...

Scientists from the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) and the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Germany published ...

The work marks an important advance in researchers' ability to reconstruct ancient diets, because it involved developing a new method to look inside tooth enamel for evidence of eating meat.

Scientists have uncovered evidence ... fossils, researchers can only speculate about which species were responsible for the cut marks. The timing aligns with the earliest appearances of Homo erectus ...

New evidence suggests that certain early human ancestors rarely consumed meat, adding new information to the timeline of ...

It’s where researchers found “Lucy,” the fossil of a female Australopithecus afarensis ... Researchers believe that Paranthropus lived alongside other early human species, like Homo habilis, occupying ...