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 ...
A series of preserved footprints have revealed the co-existence of two ancient human species. The fossils provide the first physical confirmation that Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei lived ...
THE block of bone breccia in which the beautiful skull of Paranthropus was found has already yielded us the distal end of a humersus, the proximal end of an ulna and two toe bones. The matrix on which ...
Analysis of wear patterns on fossil teeth from East African hominins suggests the diets of Paranthropus aethiopicus and Paranthropus boisei were softer than had been thought, according to a study ...
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Analysis of ancient proteins preserved in fossilized tooth enamel reveals insights into the elusive nature of Paranthropus robustus, researchers report. The findings, which challenge long-held ...
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The top human evolution discoveries of 2025, from the intriguing Neanderthal diet to the oldest Western European face fossil
This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...
The first fossil hominins were discovered at the beginning of the 20th century in South Africa, just over half a century after the publication of Darwin’s milestone work The Origin of Species ...
A human ancestor that was characterised by a 'robust' jaw and skull bones was also a muscular creature that had a gorilla-like upper body. Bones have revealed that one of our ancient ancestor was more ...
It's time to rewrite the history textbooks, as a distant new member of our ancestral family tree has been discovered. Scientists say a new, never-before seen species of human ancestor roamed the Earth ...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
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