The skull, probably a male’s, is from a species called Australopithecus anamensis, as Haile-Selassie and his colleagues report in a pair of papers published Wednesday in the journal Nature. When ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists on Wednesday announced the landmark discovery in Ethiopia of a nearly complete skull of an early human ancestor that lived 3.8 million years ago, a species boasting ...

A "remarkably complete" skull belonging to an early human ancestor that lived 3.8 million years ago has been discovered in Ethiopia. This is the first time a skull belonging to Australopithecus ...

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Berkeley -- New fossils discovered in the Afar desert of eastern Ethiopia are a missing link between our ape-man ancestors some 3.5 million years ago and more primitive hominids a million years older, ...