New Study Challenges Long-Held Idea that Our Ancestors Simply Got Bigger Over Time
For decades, paleoanthropologists assumed that hominins — the lineage leading to modern humans — gradually grew larger over…
New Fossil Crocodile from Ethiopia Lived alongside Australopithecus afarensis
Paleontologists analyzing fossils from Ethiopia have described a previously unknown crocodile species that shared the landscape with a…
Fossils show two types of ancient human ancestors lived at the same place and time. One was possibly an unknown species
Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of…
Ancient Human Ancestors Showed Extreme Size Differences Between Males and Females
Credit: Ken Zirkel,the Museum of Natural History By the time “Lucy” took her final steps across the Ethiopian…