Dive into the world of our ancient cousins and discover the key differences between Paranthropus and Homo. Understanding ...

Paranthropus had distinctive traits that make them a key part of our evolutionary story. This video explains their significance and what scientists have uncovered about them.

We looked at fossil teeth from hominins (humans and our closest extinct relatives) from the Omo Valley in Ethiopia, where we can see traces of more than two million years of human evolution, as well ...

Two species of ancient human relatives crossed paths 1.5 million years ago. Fossilized footprints in Kenya captured the moment, according to a new study.

Paranthropus boisei, meanwhile, featured smaller brains, massive chewing muscles and large molar teeth. William Harcourt-Smith, an associate professor of anthropology at Lehman College who was ...

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 ...

So, for Paranthropus remains that date from roughly 2 million years ago, the team turned to proteins found in teeth. These inevitably get damaged over time—broken down into smaller fragments ...

Paranthropus boisei, the more distantly related to modern humans of the two, lived from about 2.3 to 1.2 million years ago, standing up to about 4 feet 6 inches (137 cm) tall.

While most people had thought Paranthropus relied only on its stout teeth and jaws to eat, “here you’ve got Paranthropus at a site with stone tools and a butchered hippo,” says Plummer, a ...

Within a few hundred thousand years of the encounter, the Paranthropus boisei would be extinct for reasons that are still unknown. By contrast, the Homo erectus species persisted for another ...

A trackway of footprints found in northern Kenya is hypothesized to have been created by Paranthropus boisei, a hominin who lived 1.5 million years ago.