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 ...
Natural history is a difficult thing to conceptualize. You’ve got eons of undocumented progress, like the evolution of many species. Take, for example, the Australopithecus, an ancient great ape ...
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, ...
The ancient skeleton is the most complete Australopithecus fossil ever found. The virtually complete Australopithecus fossil "Little Foot" is displayed at the University of the Witwatersrand in ...
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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A REPLICA of the remains of a more than 3-million-year-old female hominid known as "Lucy" at the National Museum in Addis Ababa ...
An international study led by researchers from Australia's La Trobe University and the University of Cambridge has challenged the classification of one of the world's most complete human ancestral ...
Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels over and draws its last breath. The carcass is soon set on by hyenas, who ...