Seven million years ago, in the vast savannas and woodlands of ancient Africa, a small creature with a chimpanzee-like face took a step that would change everything. It stood upright and walked on two ...
Newly discovered fossils in Ethiopia show that Homo coexisted with Australopithecus 2.6 million years ago, rewriting the timeline of human evolution. Far from a straight line, early human history was ...
On Valentine’s Day in 2018, a team of scientists walked across a flat expanse in the badlands of northeastern Ethiopia, scanning the ground for fossils. An eagle-eyed field assistant, Omar Abdulla, ...