A research team led by Zeresenay Alemseged, a researcher at the University of Chicago in the United States, discovered 2.6 ...

“Hundreds of fossils representing over a dozen species of Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, and Homo had been found in the Afar ...

In a paper published in Nature, a team led by University of Chicago paleoanthropologist Professor Zeresenay Alemseged reports the discovery of the first Paranthropus specimen from the Afar region of ...

A fossilized foot found in the dusty sediments of northern Ethiopia has reopened one of paleoanthropology’s most ...

A rare fossil discovery in Ethiopia has pushed the known range of Paranthropus hundreds of miles farther north than ever before. The 2.6-million-year-old jaw suggests this ancient relative of humans ...

A single ancient jawbone is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about humanity’s forgotten relatives.

Carol V. Ward is in the Department of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences and in the Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65212, USA. How so many hominins lived ...

Learn how a 2.6-million-year-old Paranthropus jaw from Ethiopia’s Afar region is reshaping scientists’ understanding of early ...

Little Foot skull (left) with arrow (right) indicating position of atlas vertebra Skulls receive most of the attention in the study of human evolution, but the atlas vertebra, which sits just beneath ...

Paranthropus’ most distinctive features were their heavy jaws and gigantic molars, leading to them being nicknamed the ...