Australopithecus

Discoveries 2.6-million-year-old jaw fossil challenges long-held ideas about early hominins

The first Paranthropus fossil identified in Ethiopia’s Afar region challenges assumptions about this ancient hominin’s geographic limits.

Discoveries Australopithecus findings could rewrite how we classify millions of years of human evolution Joshua Shavit

Discoveries Wild monkeys challenge a long-held assumption about the common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees Rebecca Shavit

Discoveries 3.67 million year old fossil provides new insight into the evolution of the human face Rebecca Shavit