The Chorora Formation represents the earliest known record of sedimentation within the Afar rift of Ethiopia 17. Perilacustrine sediments and their palaeontological contents were first reported in the ...

The last common ancestor of humans and gorillas might have lived at least 2 million years earlier than previously thought. Fossilized teeth of the earliest gorilla ever discovered, dating to 10 ...

LOS ALAMOS, N.M., February 16, 2015--A paper in the latest issue of the journal Nature suggests a common ancestor of apes and humans, Chororapithecus abyssinicus, evolved in Africa, not Eurasia, two ...

Researchers working in Ethiopia have unearthed the fossils of a 10 million year old ape, a discovery they say suggests humans and African great apes may have split much earlier than thought. The ...

(Embargoed for release at 1700 GMT on Wednesday Aug 22) By Michael Kahn LONDON, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Researchers working in Ethiopia have unearthed the fossils of a 10-million-year-old ape, a discovery ...

Researchers working in Ethiopia have unearthed the fossils of a 10 million-year-old ape, a discovery they say suggests that humans and African great apes may have split much earlier than thought. The ...

A common ancestor of apes and humans, Chororapithecus abyssinicus, evolved in Africa, not Eurasia, two million years earlier than previously thought, a new paper suggests. A paper in the latest issue ...

The common ancestors of apes and humans, Chororapithecus abyssinicus, evolved in Africa not Eurasia, two million years earlier than previously thought, says a new study. Senior researcher Giday ...

A new theory suggests that prehistoric humans may have split from primates 2 million years earlier than what was previously believed. The idea comes after scientists unearthed fossils of the ...