160,000-year-old fossilized skulls from Ethiopia are oldest modern humans
Berkeley -The fossilized skulls of two adults and one child discovered in the Afar region of eastern Ethiopia have been dated at 160,000 years, making them the oldest known fossils of modern humans, or Homo sapiens....... The skulls, dug up near a village called Herto, fill a major gap in the human fossil record, an era at the dawn of modern humans when the facial features and brain cases we reco...Rabies vaccinations could help save Ethiopian wolf
Without action, rabies spread by dogs might wipe out the 500 remaining Ethiopian wolves. But new research shows that vaccinating a fraction of the wolves could protect this critically endangered species from rabies epidemics....... "Our results suggest that conservation action to protect even the smallest populations of Ethiopian wolves from rabies is both worthwhile and urgent," say Daniel Haydo...Ethiopian fossil skull indicates Homo erectus was single, widespread species 1 million years ago
... ... ...... Berkeley - A million-year-old Homo erectus skull found in Ethiopia indicates that this human ancestor was a single species scattered widely throughout Asia, Europe and Africa, not two separate species, according to an international group of scientists who discovered the skull in 1997....... Some archaeologists and anthropologists have argued that African and European populations......Discovery of bones and teeth date fossils back more than 5.2 million years ... ...Anthropologists have discovered the remains of the earliest known human ancestor in Ethiopia, dating to between 5.2 and 5.8 million years ago and which predate the previously oldest-known fossils by almost a million years. The previous discovery of the 4.4-million-year-old Ardipithecus ramidus was up to this p...