In a paper published in Nature, a team led by University of Chicago paleoanthropologist Professor Zeresenay Alemseged reports ...

A jawbone identified as being from Paranthropus, a genus closely related to our own, has been found in the Afar region of ...

The newly described specimen is a partial left mandible plus a molar crown, dated to about 2.6 million years ago using multiple methods, making it one of the oldest Paranthropus fossils known. The ...

A partial lower jaw discovered in Afar, Ethiopia expands the known geographic distribution of Paranthropus northward by 1000 km, revealing the genus to be more widespread and adaptively versatile than ...

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

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.

Paranthropus boisei, robustus, and aethiopicus represent a powerful but ultimately extinct branch of human evolution. Known ...

In a new paper published in Nature , a team led by University of Chicago paleoanthropologist Professor Zeresenay Alemseged reports the discovery of ...

A fossil jaw of a distant human relative was discovered much farther north than previously thought possible, revealing new ...

But this latest discovery seems to challenge that. It appears that Paranthropus had greater dietary flexibility than first interpreted, could adapt to a wide range of environmental conditions and was ...

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