The remains of a hominid that date back nearly 4 million years have been uncovered by a field team in Ethiopia. The discovery, announced in Addis Ababa on 4 March, looks set to provide crucial new ...

Fossil find sheds light on the transition to Homo genus from earlier hominids These new fossils, however, represent a hominid that appeared approximately one million years later than Lucy, and their ...

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, ...