The Omo I remains were found in the Omo Kibish Formation in southwestern Ethiopia, which sits within the East African Rift valley. The region is an area of high volcanic activity, and a rich ...

The Omo I remains were found in the Omo Kibish Formation in southwestern Ethiopia, within the East African Rift valley. The region is an area of high volcanic activity, and a rich source of early ...

When the bones of two early humans were found in 1967 near Kibish, Ethiopia, they were thought to be 130,000 years old. A few years ago, researchers found 154,000- to 160,000-year-old human bones ...

Richard Leakey and his team of paleontologists traveled in 1967 to the Kibish Formation along the Omo River in southernmost Ethiopia, near the town of Kibish. They found the skull (minus the face ...

The floor really used to be lava—sort of. Connecting the ash layer at Omo Kibish with the Shala caldera eruption makes the oldest known Homo sapiens skull about 36,000 years older than a ...

Ethiopia is top choice for cradle of Homo sapiens . ... The fossils, called Omo I and Omo II, were found in 1967 at Kibish, near Ethiopia's Omo River, by the famed fossil-hunter Richard Leakey.

Image credit: Céline Vidal In the late 1960s, scientists uncovered remains of Homo sapiens in the Omo Kibish Formation in southwestern Ethiopia, an area with high volcanic activity rich with ...

The Omo-Kibish formation, close to where the fossils of the oldest Homo sapiens were discovered in 1967. Photo: Céline Vidal Scientists say a Homo sapiens fossil found in Ethiopia in the 1960s is ...

The debate around the evolution of modern humans has intensified with new findings about Homo sapiens fossils from East ...

The remains, dubbed Omo I, were discovered at the Omo Kibish site near Ethiopia's Omo river in the 1960s. Previous estimates dated the human fossils to around 195,000 years old.

The Omo I fossils are a set of Homo sapiens bones unearthed in the late 1960s, deep in Ethiopia's Omo Kibish formation. The site lies within the Ethiopian Rift, a valley where volcanic activity ...