Researchers have unearthed tooth fossils in Ethiopia dating to about 2.65 million years ago of a previously unknown species in the uman evolutionary lineage, one that lived in the same time and place as the earliest-known member of the genus Homo to which our own species belongs.
The scientists discovered in the Ledi-Geraru research project area of northeastern Ethiopia’s Afar Region 10 teeth – six molars, two incisors, one premolar and one canine – that they concluded belonged to a new Australopithecus species. The teeth came from two individuals.
Ethiopian fossils reveal new species in human evolutionary lineage
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