Fossilized teeth show that two different kinds of ancient human ancestors coexisted more than 2 million years ago. One of ...

Researchers have unearthed tooth fossils in Ethiopia dating to about 2.65 million years ago of a previously unknown species ...

Fossil teeth unearthed in Ethiopia suggest two distinct human ancestor species lived alongside each other between 2.6 and 2.8 ...

In the dry, rugged badlands of Ethiopia’s Afar Region, a team of scientists has uncovered fossils that could change how you ...

The hot layer between the Earth’s crust and mantle is not static in the Afar region of Ethiopia but is surging rhythmically upwards. A study in Nature Geoscience 1 by researchers from 10 ...

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A team of international scientists has discovered new fossils at a field site in Africa that indicate Australopithecus, and ...

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Since 1993, the Afar people in Eritrea have been subjected not merely to isolated violations but to a systematic, coordinated, and genocidal policy-an official state project of extermination ...

New findings published in the journal Nature document the geological age, context and anatomy of hominin fossils discovered at the Ledi-Geraru Research Project, Ethiopia.

The teeth fossil findings suggest that two different hominin species — Australopithecus and the earliest members of our own genus Homo — coexisted there between 2.6 and 2.8 million years ago.