Republicans in control of the Nevada Senate are keeping Democrats on their toes, slipping ideas historically pushed by the Democratic Party into bills backed by the GOP.

In a relatively small state, Harry Reid loomed terrifically large, so his decision to exit the U.S. Senate after 2016 opens a massive void that left members of both parties scrambling.

A 2.8-million-year-old jawbone fossil with five intact teeth unearthed in an Ethiopian desert is pushing back the dawn of humankind by about half a million years.

The discovery of the oldest remains of human ancestors could prove that we evolved from different species

Around 400,000 years older than previous discovery of homo lineage, 2.8m-year-old jaw and five teeth was found on rocky slope in Afar region

A PIECE of jawbone with teeth attached, uncovered in Ethiopia, is the earliest known fossil of the genus Homo, to which humans belong, researchers said yesterday.

It lived in Ethiopia and had characteristics similar to those of the australopithecines, but closer to those of the genus Homo

The discovery of a 2.8-million-year-old partial jawbone in Africa could rewrite the history of human evolution.

A mandible found in Ethiopia is the most primitive remains ever found of the genus Homo, to which we belong, and directly connects it to earlier hominids like Australopithecus.

A piece of jawbone with teeth attached, uncovered in Ethiopia, is the earliest known fossil of the genus Homo, to which humans belong, researchers said Wednesday.