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

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

Rock art found in Indonesia dates to at least 67,800 years ago, representing the earliest known cave art made by humans.

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

Tabloids have seized on the most headline-friendly takeaway - “pulleys built the pyramid” - but the underlying claim is more specific: the pyramid may have grown “inside-out,” using internal sloped ...

Ethiopia’s Afar region has stood out in the study of human evolution for its vast array of hominin fossils, from some of the earliest known Homo sapiens dating to 160,000 years, to hominins dating as ...

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 ...

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

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

China's economy met the government's official growth target in 2025, with official figures showing real gross domestic ...

Paleoanthropologists have announced the world's most complete skeleton of Homo habilis, a human ancestor that lived more than ...

A partial skeleton found near Lake Turkana in northern Kenya includes the first hand and foot bones ever linked to Paranthropus boisei. The fossils, about 1.52 million years old, show a tool ready ...