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

Scientists say a new, never-before seen species of human ancestor roamed the Earth as recently as one million years ago.

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 ...

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 ...