A shocking discovery in southwestern Kenya is rewriting the history of early human evolution. Ancient tools found alongside ...

Researchers have extracted 2-million-year-old protein remains from Paranthropus robustus teeth to reveal biological sex and genetic variability.

Analysis - For nearly a century, scientists have been puzzling over fossils from a strange and robust-looking distant relative of early humans: Paranthropus robustus. It walked upright, and was built ...

Modern humans (Homo sapiens) are the only existing members of the human family tree. However, our evolutionary journey began around 6 million years ago and gave rise to at least 18 species, ...

In the middles of these branches are early hominins like Australopithecus, Paranthropus, and Homo species, as well as extinct ape-like species.