Scientists have solved the mystery of 3.4 million-year-old fossils called the "Burtele Foot" discovered in Ethiopia in 2009, finding they belonged to an enigmatic human ancestor that lived alongside ...

With an opposable big toe resembling a human thumb, the fossilized Burtele foot suggested its owner was a skilled climber, ...

Now, in a study published Tuesday called "Mystery owner of African hominin foot identified," the scientists announced that ...

Residents of Afar in northeast Ethiopia, about 800 kilometres from Addis Ababa, were engulfed in ashfall after the Hayli Gubbi volcano erupted — the first time in nearly 12,000 years. A local reporter ...

The acclaimed Ethiopian-American artist Meklit Hadero released her new album A Piece of Infinity on September 26 on the Smithsonian Folkways label, and recently released sessions of these new ...

I went looking for a community that still lives much as humans did 10,000 years ago, and quickly realized that the story is ...