New burial dating techniques applied to South African cave sediments reveal that Australopithecus fossils are far older than ...

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

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

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

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

Our species, Homo sapiens, has been evolving for more than 300,000 years, but the story of human origins starts much earlier.

The legendary “Little Foot” fossil may be an entirely new human ancestor. An international team of scientists led by ...

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One of the most complete human ancestor fossils ever found may belong to an entirely new species, according to an international research team. The famous “Little Foot” skeleton from South Africa has ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

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

An international research team has unveiled a significant discovery in human paleontology: an exceptionally well-preserved ...