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 ...

Australian researchers have discovered a two-million-year-old skull in South Africa that sheds new light on human evolution. The fossil was a male Paranthropus robustus, a species that existed ...

Researcher Cazenave emphasizes, "these fossils show that this species, comparable to modern humans, walked upright but was extremely small in size." New fossil discoveries in South Africa's Swartkrans ...

Compared to other P. robustus males recovered from a nearby cave system called Swartkrans, DNH 155 (pictured here) was much smaller and had more female-like characteristics. Jesse Martin and David ...

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 ...

A great garden needs a varied cast of plants; the solid, reliable performers that change little but always offer something whatever the season, and the shooting stars that dominate for the briefest of ...

Ahipbone from Paranthropus robustus, a species of hominin thought to have lived alongside our direct ancestors, has revealed ...

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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 ...