Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The predator likely ambushed animals, including early hominins, at rivers and lakes. Fossils revealed unique features that ...

When a partial fossil foot emerged from Ethiopia’s ancient sediments, it carried a quiet but profound implication: Lucy, the famous Australopithecus afarensis skeleton, may not have walked her ...

Two Australopithecus fossils named Lucy and Selam made a rare trip out of Ethiopia for a 60-day display at the National Museum in Prague Hyper-realistic reconstructions of Australopithecus afarensis ...

A 3.4M-year-old set of foot bones from Ethiopia is forcing paleoanthropologists to redraw one of the most familiar diagrams in science, the human family tree. For decades, Lucy, the famous ...

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 ...

On the ancient plains of Ethiopia, early human relatives were already trying out different ways of being upright. If you grew up hearing about Lucy as the main star of that era, new fossil finds ...

(CNN) — Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same ...

More than three million years ago, in the area that is now Ethiopia, our early human ancestors lived in a landscape that consisted of rivers, wetlands, and scattered woodlands. However, new research ...

(CNN) — Scientists say they have solved the mystery of the Burtele foot, a set of 3.4 million-year-old bones found in Ethiopia in 2009. The fossils, along with others unearthed more recently, have now ...