Researchers have extracted 2-million-year-old protein remains from Paranthropus robustus teeth to reveal biological sex and ...

Scientists made a surprising discovery when studying fossils of a distant human relative – Paranthropus robustus ...

P. robustus wasn’t a direct human ancestor but was closely related to Homo ergaster, a species that likely was. The leg bones of P. robustus are rarely found, so the discovery provided new clues ...

Long before the rise of the Homo sapiens civilization, our ancestors walked the valleys of East Africa over a million years ago—and some of them, it seems, were on the hunt for perfectly round tools.

Pickering, an author of the paper describing the fossil, says the find is especially important because it sheds light on the diversity of early human ancestors. “Paranthropus robustus wasn’t our ...

However, there is ongoing debate about whether Paranthropus robustus or neighboring species like Homo ergaster were the makers of these tools.

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 ...

Why was Homo ergaster white-not black-skinned? Couldn't Neanderthals make themselves a decent pair of boots? Monogamy has never been the norm, and language could be more recent than is depicted.

The group of fossils, belonging to a single, young adult, prove that Paranthropus robustus were habitual upright walkers, much like modern humans and their Homo ergaster neighbors. The new discovery ...

It’s been almost 2 million years since the first archaic humans ventured out of their African homeland. Exactly whose idea it was to set off on this world tour is difficult to say, yet Homo erectus is ...

It was first thought that SK 15 belonged to the never seen before Telanthropus capensis species but since the 1960s it was believed that it came from the early human species known as Homo ergaster.