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Never-before-seen cousin of Lucy might have lived at the same site as the oldest known human species, new study suggests

Never-before-seen cousin of Lucy might have lived at the same site as the oldest known human species, new study suggests
science8/13/2025

An unidentified early hominin fossil that might be a new species confirms that Australopithecus and Homo species lived in the same region of Africa in the same time frame.

Roughly 2.6 million-year-old fossilized teeth found in Ethiopia might belong to a previously unknown early human relative, researchers say. The teeth are from a species of Australopithecus, the genus that includes Lucy (A. afarensis). But these newly... [6155 chars]