A jawbone identified as being from Paranthropus, a genus closely related to our own, has been found in the Afar region of ...
A fossil jaw of a distant human relative was discovered much farther north than previously thought possible, revealing new ...
While it shares features with modern humans, H. habilis also has traits that would have given it an advantage in climbing ...
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 ...
In a paper published in Nature, a team led by University of Chicago paleoanthropologist Professor Zeresenay Alemseged reports ...
Paleontologists have identified a new genus of fossil goby, revealing evolutionary secrets of a lineage that stretches back millions of years. Gobies or Gobioidei are one of the most species-rich ...