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A substantial revision to the age of the Chorora Formation, Ethiopia, constraining the deposits to around 8 million years old and forming a revised age constraint for the human–gorilla lineage ...
Conquest has arrived and it’s the moment that many Invincible fans, familiar with the comics have been waiting for. Arriving in the penultimate episode of the third season, the elder Viltrumite ...
The University of Tokyo believe fossils are from ancient gorillas and date back 8m years, which suggests human and ape lineage split 10m years ago. These are the first found south of the Sahara.
The Chorora Formation represents the earliest known record of sedimentation within the Afar rift of Ethiopia 17.Perilacustrine sediments and their palaeontological contents were first reported in ...
Nine fossilised teeth found in Ethiopia are from a previously unknown species of great ape, Nature journal reports. The 10 million-year-old fossils belong to an animal that has been named ...
The new species — dubbed Chororapithecus abyssinicus, a combination of the names Chorora, the area where the fossil was found, and Abyssinia, Ethiopia's ancient name — could indicate that the ...
Chorora’s fossil wealth helped Boisserie and his team to chart the hippo’s climb to prominence. Hippo remains account for only 6% of fossil specimens in a stratum from 8.5 million years ago.
Findings show humans may have split off from other primates earlier than previously thought — and that a common ancestor of apes and humans likely evolved in Africa, not Eurasia.