The two halves of the African continent are moving apart at a rate of a few millimeters each year, geologists have calculated ...

A research team led by Zeresenay Alemseged, a researcher at the University of Chicago in the United States, discovered 2.6 ...

The Earth's crust is composed of approximately 15 to 20 tectonic plates, which float on molten magma beneath the Earth.

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

A 2.6-million-year-old hominin species fossil remains has been found in Ethiopia’s Afar region, paleoanthropologists in the University of Chicago have disclosed.

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 ...

Nearly 50 years before SoFi Stadium opened in 2020, Inglewood was crowned the City of Champions. The city, which is part of ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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