Dec 16, 2025 by News Staff

Paleoanthropologists have examined and reconstructed DAN5, a 1.5-million-year-old fossilized skull of early Homo erectus found in Gona in the Afar region...

Nov 28, 2025 by News Staff

In 2009, paleoanthropologists found eight bones from the foot of an ancient human ancestor in 3.4-million-year-old sediments at the paleontological site...

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...

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...

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 –...