Amazing hominid haul in Ethiopia
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Fossil hunters working in Ethiopia unearth the remains of at least nine primitive hominids.
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Scientists in Spain say that they have found a tooth from a human ancestor more than one million years old.
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Nine fossilised teeth found in Ethiopia are from a previously unknown species of great ape, Nature journal reports.
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The study shows that a small group of early humans returned to Africa after first migrating to the Middle East.
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Australian scientists have found a new species of hobbit-sized humans who lived about 18,000 years ago on an Indonesian island. The discovery adds another piece to the complex puzzle of human evolution.
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Addis Ababa - Ethiopian campaigners pressed British Prime Minister Tony Blair to return sacred Ethiopian objects and ancient artefacts that were looted by British troops more than a century ago.
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Wander around Axum, a sleepy town in northern Ethiopia, and it is impossible to ignore the giant pit that has been dug right in the centre of town.
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BARCELONA - A fossilized ape that was adept at climbing trees and stood upright was the last probable ancestor to great apes, including humans, researchers said Thursday.
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As a stranger draws near,  priest Mesganaw Tarkgn whips on an embroidered cape and raises  an ancient cross in a picture-perfect pose. He is used to the  demands of visitors to one of Ethiopia&#39;s holiest sites.
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The new permanent exhibition on human origins at the American Museum of Natural History merges notable achievements in paleontology and genetics.
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A fossil discovered in the Gobi Desert has unlocked the most emphatic evidence to date that the mass extinction of the dinosaurs helped placental mammals -- of which Homo sapiens is a member -- become masters of the planet.
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If walking upright first set early human ancestors apart from their ape cousins, it may have been their eventual ability to run long distances with a springing step over the African savanna
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Ethiopia's Dejene Berhanu breaks the course record as he wins the Great North Run.
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A 3.3-million-year-old fossil toddler&#151;the world's oldest known child&#151;has been discovered almost completely intact in Ethiopia. Experts say the find will provide fascinating new clues about our early ancestors.
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Celebrations are held in Addis Ababa as Ethiopia ushers in a new Millennium under the ancient Coptic calendar.
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Scientists find one of the largest migrations of land mammals on Earth in post-civil war southern Sudan.
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New jaw fossils might suggest a direct line of descent between two species of early humans, including the one to which &quot;Lucy&quot; belongs.  The 3.2 million-year-old Lucy, the earliest known hominid, was found in Ethiopia in 1974 by U.S. paleontologists Donald Johanson and Tom Gray. Lucy and her kind, Australopithecus afarensis, stood upright  and walked on two feet, though they might also have been agile tree-climbers. ...