Small pieces of tooth enamel from deep in a South African cave have begun to reveal secrets held for 2 million years by a distant human relative, a new study finds.. Archaeologists recovered teeth ...

These findings open a new window into human evolution – one that could reshape how we interpret diversity in our early ancestors by providing some of the oldest human genetic data from Africa. From ...

A 2-million-year-old skull from a large-toothed distant human cousin has been unearthed at an Australian-led archaeological dig deep in a South African cave system. Paranthropus robustus walked the ...

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This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

Story by Palesa P. Madupe,Claire Koenig and Ioannis Patramanis For nearly a century, scientists have been puzzling over fossils from a strange and robust-looking distant relative of early humans: ...

Paranthropus robustus was a species of prehistoric human that lived in South Africa about 2 million years ago, alongside Homo ergaster, a direct ancestor of modern people. Fossils of Paranthropus ...

Since the discovery of the fossil remains of Australopithecus africanus from Taung nearly a century ago, and subsequent discoveries of Paranthropus robustus, there have been disagreements about the ...

A fossil leopard lower jawbone next to a skull fragment of a juvenile Paranthropus robustus. Note the two punctures in the skull, which match the spacing of the tips of the leopard's fangs—implying ...

New research debunks a long-held belief about our ancestors' eating habits. New research from the University of Otago debunks a long-held belief about our ancestors' eating habits. For more than 60 ...

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 for heavy ...