A fossil jaw found in Ethiopia shows Paranthropus ranged far north, challenging long-held ideas about early human relatives ...

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

A recently discovered fossil dating back 2.6 million years could fundamentally change our understanding of human evolution and put a long-standing mystery to rest, a new study has found. The fossil, ...

Addis Ababa, January 21, 2026 (ENA)— A research team led by Zeresenay Alemseged, a researcher at the University of Chicago in the United States, discovered 2.6 million-year-old hominin species fossil ...

The tools were uncovered at the Nyayanga archaeological site near Lake Victoria. Between 2014 and 2022, excavations revealed more than 300 stone tools made mostly from quartz and rhyolite. These ...

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 ...

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 ...

A 2.6-million-year-old fossil is changing our understanding of early human evolution in Africa. Paranthropus remains found in Ethiopia’s Afar region shows that this group of early hominins were more ...

The discovery of fossilized remains of an extinct hominin called Paranthropus in north-eastern Ethiopia, dating to about 2.6 million years ago, expands the number of hominin species known to have been ...

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