Lucy was recovered in Ethiopia in 1974 from what was an ancient lake near fossilised remains of crocodiles, turtle eggs and crab claws. She was a member of Australopithecus afarensis, an early human ...

The fossilized chompers are evidence of a previously unknown hominin that coexisted with the earliest humans 2.8 million ...

The virtually complete Australopithecus fossil "Little Foot" is displayed at the University of the Witwatersrand in ...

Ethiopian fossils uncover new species in human lineage as researchers discover Australopithecus teeth coexisting with early ...

A new human species has been identified from 2.65-million-year-old fossils found in Ethiopia, reshaping views on our ...

New Ethiopian fossils show early Homo and Australopithecus lived together, revealing a complex human evolution story.

The find suggests that as many as four different hominin lineages lived in eastern Africa between 2.5 million and 3 million ...

From Ethiopia comes an incredible discovery—early humans seem to have potentially lived alongside the very apes they evolved ...

Arizona State University researchers unearthed fossils in Ethiopia that may have belonged to a previously undiscovered ...

On 15 August, a plane arrived in Prague carrying fossils of human ancestors over three million years old. This remarkable collection includes the fossils of Lucy, a female Australopithecus afarensis, ...

An international team of scientists has made an extraordinary discovery in Ethiopia’s Ledi-Geraru region: new fossils that ...

A bunch of fossilized teeth recovered by an ASU research team in Africa could potentially belong to a newly discovered ...