A fossilized foot found in the dusty sediments of northern Ethiopia has reopened one of paleoanthropology’s most consequential questions: how many species of early hominins walked the Earth at the ...

A newly found jawbone shows that Paranthropus was far more widespread and versatile than scientists once believed. The discovery suggests early humans were not alone or dominant during this critical ...

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 ...