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 ...

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.

Pictured above is a fossil footprint believed to have been created by a hominin species known as Paranthropus boisei, one of 12 such footprints unearthed in Kenya that date back 1.5 million years.

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 ...

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 ...

Archaeologists recovered teeth from four members of the species Paranthropus robustus, a two-legged human relative who lived between 1.8 million and 1.2 million years ago, from Swartkrans, a ...

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.

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 ...

But these remarkably preserved footprints were the first to indicate that two different species of hominins — including Homo erectus, which is a direct ancestor to humans, and Paranthropus ...