Australopithecus bahrelghazali
Australopithecus bahrelghazali is a fossil australopithecine which was discovered in 1993 by the paleontologist Michel Brunet. Brunet found the fossil in the Bahr el Ghazal valley near Koro Toro, in Chad, in Africa and named it Abel. Abel was dated using beryllium-based radiometric dating as living about 3.6 million years ago.
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| †Australopithecus bahrelghazali Brunet et al., 1995
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Australopithecus Bahrelghazali Media
Koro Toro may have been similar to the modern Okavango Delta (above)
