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Eric Scott @captainfossil.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Happy to finally see this out! New hominin fossils from the Ledi-Geraru site in the Afar Region, Ethiopia reveal that early Homo lived alongside an as-yet unnamed new species of Australopithecus between 2.78 and 2.63 million years ago. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪

My dirty fingers with dirt under the nails holding a small fossil tooth with a black root just over a wooden table. The tooth is an upper canine (LD 760-115979) of an as-yet unnamed species of Australopithecus from the Ledi-Geraru Site, Afar Region, Ethiopia. This and associated fossils from the site were the first record of Australopithecus from Ledi-Geraru. Photo from the field in 2018; I'd just glued a sliver of enamel back onto the tooth.

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Eric Scott @captainfossil.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Remains of Australopithecus were not previously known from Ledi-Geraru. These discoveries demonstrate that as many as *four* hominin lineages were living in eastern Africa between 3.0 and 2.5 million years ago: early Homo, Paranthropus, A. garhi, and the new Australopithecus from Ledi-Geraru.

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