The fossilized remains of one of the smallest known human relatives have been unearthed in South Africa’s Cradle of Humankind ...

Researcher Cazenave emphasizes, "these fossils show that this species, comparable to modern humans, walked upright but was ...

The left hip and leg bones from a young female Paranthropus robustus discovered in South Africa show she was extremely short — and ended up as a leopard's lunch.

Paranthropus robustus fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal new insights into their diet, social structure, and survival 2 ...

Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was also extremely small and ...

A new study found that a 1.4 million-year-old jaw belonged to the genus Paranthropus from southern Africa. The exctinct spieces is nicknamed "nutcracker man" because of its huge jaws and molars.

About 2 million years ago, in South Africa, a prehistoric human species, Paranthropus robustus, shared its habitat with Homo ergaster, a direct ancestor of modern humans. A recent discovery in the ...

Unfortunately, Swartkrans has, over the years, yielded many fewer bones from the rest of the Paranthropus robustus skeleton, limiting our understanding of its stature, posture, and locomotion.A major ...

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 ...