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

In a paper published in Nature, a team led by University of Chicago paleoanthropologist Professor Zeresenay Alemseged reports ...

The two halves of the African continent are moving apart at a rate of a few millimeters each year, geologists have calculated ...

A peace conference aimed at strengthening unity and coexistence between the peoples of Tigray and Afar was held in Adi-Gudem town, bringing together community members, elders, leaders, and government ...

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

Learn how a 2.6-million-year-old Paranthropus jaw from Ethiopia’s Afar region is reshaping scientists’ understanding of early ...

In Ethiopia’s Afar region, a massive crack opened during a volcanic eruption in 2005 — part of a much larger tectonic rift ...

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 ...

Scientists at the University of Southampton found evidence that waves of hot, melted rock are rising up from deep below ...

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About 65 migrants were injured, with 30 of them said to be in critical condition At least 22 migrants have been killed and 65 others injured after a lorry they were travelling in overturned in ...