Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A fossilized jawbone, which was excavated from the same site as the Burtele foot, as it appeared before it was excavated from the ...

More than three million years ago, in the area that is now Ethiopia, our early human ancestors lived in a landscape that ...

Roughly 2.6 million-year-old fossilized teeth found in Ethiopia might belong to a previously unknown early human relative, researchers say. The teeth are from a species of Australopithecus, the genus ...

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The ancient skeleton known as “Little Foot” has long been a celebrity in paleoanthropology, but a new wave of research is pushing it into even more provocative territory. Instead of fitting neatly ...