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Fossils show two types of ancient human ancestors lived at the same place and time. One was possibly an unknown species

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 place ...
Men's Journal

Human Teeth Evolved From Body Armor of Extinct Species

View post: 40 Years Ago, This Weird, Genre-Bending Song Was No. 1 A new study, published on May 21 in the journal Nature, has revealed surprising information about the origins of human teeth. Our ...
New York Post

2.65 million-year-old fossil teeth unearthed in Ethiopia opens up current understandings of human evolution

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 ...
The Boston Globe

In ancient teeth, clues of human evolution — and perhaps a new species

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, ...
Wall Street Journal

New Species of Human Ancestor Discovered From Ancient Teeth

A handful of teeth unearthed in Ethiopia has led to the discovery of a new species of human ancestor. The finding, announced in August in the journal Nature, began with a Valentine’s Day trek seven ...