Scientists made a surprising discovery when studying fossils of a distant human relative – Paranthropus robustus ...

Paranthropus had distinctive traits that make them a key part of our evolutionary story. This video explains their significance and what scientists have uncovered about them.

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 ...

In some cases, the megadont cheek teeth of Paranthropus boisei were four times the size of our own. Date of discovery 1959 Original Object Identifier OH 5 Original Object Holding Institution National ...

The study questions the long-held belief that northern Africa became arid around 3 million years ago, which coincides with ...

The study challenges the idea that the climate of northern Africa dried out around 3 million years ago, a time when the earliest known hominids appear in the fossil record.

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

Proteins degrade over time, making their history hard to study. But new research has uncovered ancient proteins in the enamel ...

Ancient humans in Africa changed their behaviour in a major way 70,000 years ago, which could explain how their descendants ...

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, ...