A jawbone identified as being from Paranthropus, a genus closely related to our own, has been found in the Afar region of Ethiopia. That makes it the northernmost evidence of Paranthropus by 1,000 ...
In a paper published in Nature, a team led by University of Chicago paleoanthropologist Professor Zeresenay Alemseged reports the discovery of the first Paranthropus specimen from the Afar region of ...
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 ...