Oct 12, 2026 | Journal
A fossil has an age and a lineage, and those are two different questions. Most years, palaeoanthropology answers one at a time, and the answers sit comfortably inside the existing calendar. 2026 is not most years. In May 2026, two papers landed within twenty-four...
Sep 28, 2026 | Journal
One lower molar, recovered from a hillside in the Afar region of Ethiopia in 2015 and described in print this May, has done what a 300,000-year stretch of hard sediment had refused to do: it has moved the Paranthropus lineage. The fossil — Ledi 1 (LDU-1), a single...
