The reconstruction was produced by an international research team led by Dr Karen Baab, a paleoanthropologist at Midwestern ...

Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an ...

A 1.5-million-year-old skull suggests Homo erectus evolved through a messy transition, with multiple human forms coexisting.

Digital reconstruction of Ethiopian fossil shows a mix of primitive, classic features, says research team - Anadolu Ajansı ...

Palaeontologists working in Ethiopia have discovered the remains of at least nine primitive human ancestors up to 4.5 million years old and from a little-known hominid species. Palaeontologists ...

Before the genus Homo arose some 2 million years ago, eastern Africa was dominated by the Australopithecines - small brained, large-toothed bipeds that later earned the sobriquet "ape-men." But where ...

Scientists have discovered a fragment of an ancient jawbone belonging to a potentially new species revealing that the human family may have emerged nearly half a million years earlier than previously ...

May 7, 2006 — I received lots of negatives as well as positive responses from concerned Ethiopians on my article. This is positive. It shows that there are some Ethiopians out there who are very much ...

One of the things I enjoy about travel is seeing different dogs around the world. Last year, I went to Ethiopia in search of wild dogs – rare and endangered Ethiopian wolves (Canis simensis) – but I ...

Scientists have unearthed the jawbone of what they claim is one of the very first humans. The 2.8 million-year-old specimen is 400,000 years older than researchers thought that our kind first emerged.