Scientists at the University of Southampton found evidence that waves of hot, melted rock are rising up from deep below ...

Learn how a 2.6-million-year-old Paranthropus jaw from Ethiopia’s Afar region is reshaping scientists’ understanding of early ...

About 85 Ethiopian migrants were trying to leave the country when the accident occurred, authorities say.

“Hundreds of fossils representing over a dozen species of Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, and Homo had been found in the Afar ...

The two halves of the African continent are moving apart at a rate of a few millimeters each year, geologists have calculated ...

A long-dormant volcano in northern Ethiopia has erupted, sending plumes of ash across the Red Sea towards Yemen and Oman. The Hayli Gubbi volcano in the Afar region of Ethiopia, located about 800 ...

A rare fossil discovery in Ethiopia has pushed the known range of Paranthropus hundreds of miles farther north than ever before. The 2.6-million-year-old jaw suggests this ancient relative of humans ...

How the climate crisis is changing an ancient way of life in Ethiopia - ON THE GROUND: Families have been raising livestock in the Afar region of northeastern Ethiopia for centuries, but Nick Ferris f ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Volcanic activity in northern Ethiopia’s long-dormant Hayli Gubbi volcano subsided Tuesday, days after an eruption that left a trail of destruction in nearby villages and ...

A research team led by Zeresenay Alemseged, a researcher at the University of Chicago in the United States, discovered 2.6 million-year-old hominin species fossil remains in Ethiopia's Afar region for ...

Ethiopia's Afar region has said it came under attack from the forces of neighbouring Tigray, accusing it of seizing control of villages and bombing civilians, in the latest sign of internal conflict ...