TEMPE, Ariz. — A team of scientists with Arizona State University have uncovered a collection of fossilized teeth at a field site in Africa that are believed to belong to a newly-discovered species.

The research team reported finding the fossils in northeastern Ethiopia and they potentially belong to a new species of Australopithecus that hasn't been documented before. Thirteen teeth in total were recovered by the researchers and the fossils are estimated to between 2.6 and 2.8 million years old.

The team's findings were published this week in the journal "Nature."

The discovery appears to show that there's potentially an overlap in the fossil record of Australopithecus and early Homo species co-existing in the same location.

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