WASHINGTON — The story of humankind is reaching back another million years as scientists learn more about “Ardi,” a hominid who lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia. The 110-pound, ...

About 3.2 million years ago, among the prehistoric forests of what is now Ethiopia, a small human was folded into the fossil record. No one knows for sure what killed them. Perhaps it was a fall from ...

When considering the unnamed major features of all the moons, asteroids, and comets in our solar system, there are still a ...

She was, for a while, the oldest known member of the human family. Fifty years after the discovery of Lucy in Ethiopia, the remarkable remains continue to yield theories and questions. In a ...

Ardi, short for Ardipithecus ramidus, is the newest fossil skeleton out of Africa to take its place in the gallery of human origins. At an age of 4.4 million years, it lived well before and was much ...

FILE - The framed hominid fossil "Lucy" is seen at a exhibition at the Ethiopian Natural History Museum in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2006. (AP Photo/Les Neuhaus, file) ...

When palaeoanthropologist Donald Johanson discovered a bone fragment at the Hadar fossil site in Ethiopia in 1974, he knew it was an extraordinary find, but little did he know just how much it would ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — The human ancestor fossil known as Lucy left Ethiopia for display in a European museum, Ethiopian national media reported Friday, citing Tourism Minister Selamawit Kassa.

March 21 -- A 3.5-million-year-old, flat-faced early human skull, which paleontologists found poking from the crumbling Kenyan earth, could push "Lucy" out of our ancestral family tree. For 20 years, ...

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia agreed on Tuesday to exhibit its world-acclaimed archaeological find -- the 3.2 million-year-old remains of a female hominid known as Lucy -- and 190 other heritage ...

The 3.18-million-year-old bone fragments of human ancestor Lucy, which rarely leave Ethiopia, went on display in Prague on Monday, with the Czech prime minister hailing the fossils' "first ever" ...