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.

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 ...

Yet venerating relics remains far from a “relic” of the past. At the end of 2024, the skull of St. Thomas Aquinas – the great Dominican medieval thinker whose writings I study – made its ...

ELLIS COUNTY, Texas — Mammoths roamed across North Texas tens of thousands of years ago, and the head of one of them will soon be on display, as a mammoth skull was uncovered in Ellis County ...

In the dead of night, the skull of Robert Burns was removed from the crypt where he lay. It was his second final resting place - and the poet was to be disturbed once more. A group of men intent ...

An international team of researchers report on the bird's fully preserved skull. The fossil was unearthed in the 1950s in a former lignite mining area in the Geiseltal in Germany. It was initially ...