Kenyanthropus platyops was identified from fossils found near Lake Turkana in Kenya and dated to roughly 3.5 to 3.2 million ...

The 3.5-million-year-old skull of Kenyanthropus platyops. Image: Pavel Švejnar/Wikicommons Three and a half million years ago was the heyday of Australopithecus afarensis. But Lucy’s species may not ...

A 3.5m-year-old skull unearthed in Kenya could be about to throw the story of human origins into confusion once again. Human lineage has been linked to an ancestral genus called the Australopithecines ...

Scientists will have to rewrite the story of human ancestry follow ing the discovery of a 3.5 million year old "missing link". Recovered in Kenya, the fossil skull has modern features including a flat ...