Travel back millions of years to explore the latest findings in human evolution at a free public lecture hosted by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. Renowned paleoanthropologist and ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. When the furnace wind blows across the stony Afar desert of northern Ethiopia, and the mercury hits 50 degrees, not everyone sees beauty ...

Over the years in the desert of Afar state, near a great bend of the Awash River, discoveries of one species of near-human after another have revealed when ancestral creatures first left the trees to ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – Ethiopian, American and European researchers have observed a fissure in a desert in the remote northeast that could be the "birth of a new ocean basin," scientists said Friday.

Justin DeShields (left) and Bryan Morales, shown near of the Santo Tomas Valley, are venturing north to south down the Baja California peninsula. The Californians have gone about one-third of the way ...

A San Francisco anthropologist and his international research team report to have found evidence in the harsh Ethiopian desert that human ancestors used stone tools to cut and smash animal bones for ...

Ethiopian, American and European researchers have observed a fissure in a desert in the remote northeast that could be the "birth of a new ocean basin," scientists said Friday. Researchers from ...

Ethiopian, American and European researchers have observed a fissure in a desert in the remote northeast that could be the "birth of a new ocean basin," scientists said. Researchers from Britain, ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In the Afar desert where she has lived the past 33 years, Australian nurse Valerie Browning is so beloved by the nomads she helps in ...

At least 12 European tourists were kidnapped by suspected separatist rebels in a remote desert region of Ethiopia, diplomats in Addis Ababa said Friday. Two groups of foreign trekkers — between seven ...

Aid agencies working in Iraq have recounted horror stories from people fleeing Islamic State in the extreme desert heat in Tal Afar. Fighters from the Hashed Al-Shaabi advance inside al-Nour ...

Ethiopian, American and European researchers have observed a fissure in a desert in the remote northeast that could be the "birth of a new ocean basin," scientists said Friday. Researchers from ...