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 ...

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

Researchers at the Waltham Petcare Science Institute in the UK recently revealed a complete taxonomic and functional catalog ...

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

Hirola” translates from Somali to something like “the peaceful one” or “the lone one,” referring to its solitary habits. Like other antelopes, Hirola are social but tend to form small herds of 10 to ...

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

A partial lower jaw discovered in Afar, Ethiopia expands the known geographic distribution of Paranthropus northward by 1000 km, revealing the genus to be more widespread and adaptively versatile than ...

Far from being neutral and objective, the law often perpetuates existing prejudices – particularly gender stereotypes – which ...

While it shares features with modern humans, H. habilis also has traits that would have given it an advantage in climbing ...

An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was ...

The name mikazuki isn’t random. It is a nod to the local history of the Tohoku region, derived from the Japanese word for ...

The PSA has recommended the creation of a national database to record, classify and analyse AI-related risks and incidents ...