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That's why a series of discoveries presented last week in the journal Science has paleontologists in such a stir. An international expedition working in Ethiopia found a partial skull of a new species of human ancestor from 2.5 million years ago, right in the middle of the gap. They also discovered evidence that someone was using tools to butcher animals in the same location at approximately the same time. And they found fossil arm, leg and foot bones that will provide experts with important clues about how human ancestors were built in those days. Exclaims anatomist Alan Walker...
...another. The new species, for example, which the researchers call Australopithecus garhi (garhi means surprise in the Afar language), was identified on the basis of a fragmentary skull with a complete upper jaw full of unusually large teeth that was excavated from the arid, rocky ground of Ethiopia's Middle Awash region near the village of Bouri. When the paleontologists looked closely at the skull, they were shocked. The combination of teeth and bones clearly came from a species more primitive than the earliest humans yet more modern than known australopithecines. That means it could be the transitional species that...
Fatuma Roba of Ethiopia won the women's race in2:23.25. The race was the third victory in as manyyears for Roba, who also claimed the gold medal inthe 1996 Olympic marathon...
Fatuma Roba of Ethiopia won the women's race in 2:23.25. The race was the third victory in as many years for Roba, who also claimed the gold medal in the 1996 Olympic marathon...
CONFLICT Fierce border dispute with Ethiopia...