A research team led by Zeresenay Alemseged, a researcher at the University of Chicago in the United States, discovered 2.6 ...

“Hundreds of fossils representing over a dozen species of Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, and Homo had been found in the Afar ...

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A rare fossil discovery in Ethiopia has pushed the known range of Paranthropus hundreds of miles farther north than ever before. The 2.6-million-year-old jaw suggests this ancient relative of humans ...

About 85 Ethiopian migrants were trying to leave the country when the accident occurred, authorities say.

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At least 22 Ethiopian migrants were killed and more than 60 injured after a lorry they were travelling in overturned in the country s ...

A partial lower jaw discovered in Afar, Ethiopia expands the known geographic distribution of Paranthropus northward by 1000 km, revealing the genus to be more widespread and adaptively versatile than ...

Ethiopia’s Afar region has stood out in the study of human evolution for its vast array of hominin fossils, from some of the earliest known Homo sapiens dating to 160,000 years, to hominins dating as ...

But this latest discovery seems to challenge that. It appears that Paranthropus had greater dietary flexibility than first interpreted, could adapt to a wide range of environmental conditions and was ...

Only through dialogue we can secure a lasting peace and progress: ...