{"id":886814,"date":"2026-01-21T19:20:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T01:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/21\/2-6-million-year-old-fossil-from-ethiopia-shows-paranthropus-hominins-were-widespread\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T19:20:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T01:20:20","slug":"2-6-million-year-old-fossil-from-ethiopia-shows-paranthropus-hominins-were-widespread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/21\/2-6-million-year-old-fossil-from-ethiopia-shows-paranthropus-hominins-were-widespread\/","title":{"rendered":"2.6-Million-Year-Old Fossil from Ethiopia Shows Paranthropus Hominins Were Widespread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature The newly-discovered fossil &#8212; a 2.6-million-year-old partial lower jaw found in the Afar region of Ethiopia &#8212; represents the first known specimen of Paranthropus ever discovered there and is among the oldest remains attributed to this genus anywhere in Africa.<br \/>\nThe post 2.6-Million-Year-Old Fossil from Ethiopia Shows Paranthropus Hominins Were Widespread appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sci.news\/othersciences\/anthropology\/afar-paranthropus-fossil-14499.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Lawanda Fetzer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature The newly-discovered fossil &#8212; a 2.6-million-year-old partial lower jaw found in the Afar region of Ethiopia &#8212; represents the first known specimen of Paranthropus ever discovered there and is among the oldest remains attributed to this genus anywhere in Africa. The post 2.6-Million-Year-Old Fossil from Ethiopia Shows Paranthropus Hominins Were Widespread appeared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":886815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25191,25184,536],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-886814","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fossil","8":"category-million-year-old","9":"category-science-nature"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/886815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}