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 ...

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 ...

Paranthropus boisei, Paranthropus robustus, and Paranthropus aethiopicus are examined as a distinct but debated branch of early human evolution. Their huge molars, powerful jaws, sagittal crests, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...