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 ...

Credit scores are dropping rapidly. Here's why (and what to do about it). Robert Redford, Oscar-winning director, actor and indie patriarch, dies at 89 A Massive New Study Says This Is What Happens to ...

Step aside, Jurassic Park. A new creature feature is making its way to theaters, blending the campy thrills of a B-movie with the raw edge of a war drama. Following the SDCC trailer debut, the first ...

The Miccosukee Tribe is lauding a judge's ruling regarding "Alligator Alcatraz." When the news broke in Florida Thursday that a federal judge had blocked further construction at the migrant detention ...

If there is one specific area that the Abiy Administration needs to focus on with a fierce urgency of now, it is setting up an agile communication facility and establishing an effective communication ...

In the last year, the Gabrieleño Band of Mission Indians – Kizh Nation has worked to protect its cultural sites from more than 850 land development projects around the Los Angeles Basin, thanks to a ...

CARLO CONTI-ROSSINI, the greatest living authority on Ethiopian culture and history, has described Ethiopia as a "museum of peoples." For thousands of years diverse peoples have beaten against the ...

THE Todas are a pastoral hill-tribe in the Nilagiri region of Southern India, whose singularly interesting social condition fairly entitled them to be described in a volume by themselves. Colonel ...