The Cleveland Museum of Natural History is presenting a special exhibit, Fossil Hunters: The Search for our Past! Curator of Physical Anthropology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Dr.

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CLEVELAND, Ohio — The distinguished science journal Nature has chosen Dr. Yohannes Haile-Selassie, curator of physical anthropology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, as one of the 10 People ...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (Aug 28) -- Cleveland Museum of Natural History Curator and Case Western Reserve University Adjunct Professor Dr. Yohannes Haile-Selassie and his team of researchers have ...

The specimens, whose discovery was announced today at a briefing in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, are from a crucial period in human evolution that had been sorely lacking in fossils for study ...

A groundbreaking discovery made 50 years ago by Arizona State University researchers is now on exhibit. The exhibit is meant to showcase discoveries that tell us more about history from millions of ...

Dr. Yohannes Haile-Selassie of The Cleveland Museum of Natural History announced a new human ancestor species from Ethiopia. He is pictured holding a cast of the holotype upper jaw. Disclaimer: AAAS ...

The region of Ethiopia called the Middle Awash, some 140 miles northeast of the capital of Addis Ababa, is a hot, harsh and inhospitable place-a rocky desert punctuated by tree-lined rivers, the ...

The discovery of a nearly intact skull in Ethiopia is the first to show the facial characteristics of a critically important species linked to early hominin evolution. At the same time, the ...

Remains of what may be humanity’s earliest direct ancestor, a chimp-sized creature that walked the cool, wooded highlands of East Africa more than 5 million years ago, have been discovered in Ethiopia ...

About 3.8 million years ago, a distant human relative took his final steps. Swept into a river delta, his head was buried in sand that, over time, hardened into a stone helmet. The skull fossilized ...

He speaks of the harsh terrain. Of snakes and scorpions. Of hostile natives. And, of course, of the intense heat in Ethiopia’s Afar region. “We’re literally risking our lives going to these desolate ...