New fossil discoveries in South Africa's Swartkrans Cave shed new light on the physical characteristics and lifestyle of ...
For decades, Paranthropus boisei, an early hominin that roamed eastern Africa a million years ago, was known for its gigantic jaw and powerfully constructed biting muscles. Its coarse-grass and reed ...
New research from the University of Otago debunks a long-held belief about our ancestors' eating habits. For more than 60 years, researchers have believed Paranthropus, a close fossil relative of ours ...
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1.4 million-year-old jaw that was 'a bit weird for Homo' turns out to be from never-before-seen human relative
A 1.4 million-year-old fossil jaw belongs to a previously unknown human relative from southern Africa, a new study finds. The extinct human relative is from the genus Paranthropus, whose nickname is ...
IT ISN’T often that an esteemed professor sets out to investigate a scientific discovery made by a 15-year-old boy, but in 1938 Robert Broom made an exception. The British-born palaeontologist was ...
The first fossil hominins were discovered at the beginning of the 20th century in South Africa, just over half a century after the publication of Darwin’s milestone work The Origin of Species ...
Around 1.5 million years ago, four walkers traversed the muddy shore of a lake, leaving footprints. If they did not cross paths, they would have missed each other narrowly — probably by hours if not ...
Since the discovery of the fossil remains of Australopithecus africanus from Taung nearly a century ago, and subsequent discoveries of Paranthropus robustus, there have been disagreements about the ...
Dazzling new scientific techniques are allowing anthropologists to track the movements and menus of extinct hominids through the seasons and years as they ate their way across the African landscape, ...
When studying how fossil hominids moved, researchers usually analyze the morphology of bones—which is crucial for ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. However, after travelling to several large institutes and museums ...
New research debunks a long-held belief about our ancestors' eating habits. New research from the University of Otago debunks a long-held belief about our ancestors' eating habits. For more than 60 ...
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