Tag Archive for 'Afar region'

Forensic facial reconstruction of another Australopithecus species - A. afarensis. Image credit: Cicero Moraes / CC BY-SA 3.0.

Early Homo and Australopithecus Co-Existed in Ethiopia before 2.5 Million Years Ago

Aug 13, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

New hominin fossils recovered from the Ledi-Geraru Research Project area in the Afar region of Ethiopia suggest the presence of early Homo at 2.78 and...

Variation in geochemical and geophysical properties around the Afar Triangle. Image credit: Watts et al., doi: 10.1038/s41561-025-01717-0.

Geoscientists Find Pulsing Mantle Plume beneath Ethiopia’s Afar Region

Jun 30, 2025 by News Staff

These pulses are gradually tearing the African continent apart and forming a new ocean basin, according to a study led by University of Southampton researchers. Variation...

The left half of the lower jaw of Australopithecus deyiremeda. Image credit: Yohannes Haile-Selassie / Cleveland Museum of Natural History.

Australopithecus deyiremeda: New Hominin Species Discovered in Ethiopia

May 27, 2015 by News Staff

A multinational group of anthropologists has described a new human ancestor species that lived in what is now the Afar region of Ethiopia about 3.3 –...