1.4 million-year-old jawbone classified as Paranthropus capensis Discovery suggests multiple Paranthropus species coexisted Findings reshape understanding of early human evolution ...

Paranthropus have previously been dubbed the 'nutcracker men' because of their extremely big jaws, robust skull bones and large molar teeth. They walked on two legs, but had smaller brains than ...

A team of researchers, led by forensic expert Cicero Moraes, used the partial remains of Aquinas' skull to digitally reconstruct his face. "We initially reconstructed the skull from photographic and ...

It comes from a new species of the genus Paranthropus, nicknamed the “nutcracker man” due to the fossil’s massive size and huge molar teeth. Photos of the fossil jaw (Lazarus Kgasi ...

It comes from a new species of the genus Paranthropus, nicknamed the “nutcracker man” due to the fossil’s massive size and huge molar teeth. The researchers specifically assessed the fossil ...

Paranthropus are sometimes described as having “gorilla-like” features because their skull structure crests suggest they had powerful, grinding herbivorous teeth like other living great ape ...

Cicero Moraes, lead author of the new study, said: 'We initially reconstructed the skull from photographic and structural data. 'The skull did not have teeth or a jaw, so we had to project these ...

At the time Paranthropus was alive, the world had several hominins, or species on the evolutionary branch more closely related to humans than to chimps. Our genus, Homo, emerged at least 2.8 ...

(CNN) — A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has ... using computerized tomography to create a three-dimensional reconstruction, was also characteristic of modern birds, according ...