Kenyanthropus platyops was found near Lake Turkana in Kenya and dates to roughly 3.5 to 3.2 million years ago. Its flat face, ...

Homo Naledi, the small-brained ancient human relative discovered deep inside a South African cave system in 2013, has never ...

A new protein analysis of Homo naledi skeletons reveals a curious twist—none of them seem to have Y chromosomes.

While walking through the dry, eroded gullies of Koobi Fora in northern Kenya in 1969, Richard Leakey came across a fossil fragment. The discovery did not have much fanfare at the time of its ...

The 1969 fossil discovery by Richard Leakey and H. Mutua at Koobi Fora, Kenya, initially speculated to belong to an early ...

New fossil discoveries are reshaping scientists’ understanding of a pivotal chapter in human evolution, revealing that ...

Paranthropus was a strange prehistoric hominin that lived alongside early human ancestors across Africa for nearly two million years. With massive jaws, powerful chewing muscles, and ape-like features ...

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

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

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 ...

Experts have been puzzled by recently discovered fossils from the hand of an extinct human relative, Paranthropus boisei. They have been surprised by a mix of human-like and gorilla-like traits in the ...

Experts have been puzzled by recently discovered fossils from the hand of an extinct human relative, Paranthropus boisei. They have been surprised by a mix of human-like and gorilla-like traits in the ...