Ethiopian Skull Reveals Primitive Homo Erectus Traits

Scientists have reconstructed a very old human-like skull from Ethiopia.

This skull, called DAN5, is about 1.5 to 1.6 million years old and belongs to a species called Homo erectus.

Surprisingly, the face of this skull looks more like older human ancestors, not like other Homo erectus fossils from the same time.

This discovery shows that early humans had a lot of different looks and that some groups kept older features longer than others.

The skull was found in a place called Gona, and scientists used special scans to put it back together like a puzzle.

This helps us learn more about how humans evolved and spread around the world.