A recently discovered fossil dating back 2.6 million years could fundamentally change our understanding of human evolution ...

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 ...

A new way of analysing fossils has revealed more about animals and environments of ancient times, when humans were evolving.

Little Foot is a nearly complete ancient skeleton found in the Sterkfontein caves in South Africa that could change how ...

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 ...

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

A partial skeleton dating back more than two million years is the most complete yet of Homo habilis, one of the earliest ...

A rare Homo habilis skeleton from Kenya reveals how early humans moved, climbed, and adapted more than two million years ago.

エチオピア北東部で発見された、約260万年前に絶滅したパラントロプス（ Paranthropus ）と呼ばれるホミニン（hominin）の化石は、当時この地域に生息していたホミニンの種数を増やすものである。今週の Nature に掲載されるこの発見は、人類の古代の親類であるパラントロプスの分布と適応力に光を当てるものである。