A jawbone identified as being from Paranthropus, a genus closely related to our own, has been found in the Afar region of ...

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。

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

人類の古代の近縁種であるパラントロプス・ボイセイ（Paranthropus boisei）に属する150万年前の新たな化石群には、この種に明確に関連付けられる手の骨が含まれており、ホミニン（hominin；ヒト族）の手の進化に関する知見を提供する。Nature にオープン ...

ケニアのNyayangaでの新たな考古学的発見によって、オルドワン技術 ―― 判明している中で最古の先史時代の石器製作 ―― はこれまで考えられていたより古く、また、広く普及していたことが示されたと、研究者らは報告している。彼らが発見したオルド ...