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 ...

In some cases, the megadont cheek teeth of Paranthropus boisei were four times the size of our own. Date of discovery 1959 Original Object Identifier OH 5 Original Object Holding Institution National ...

A study led by researchers from Brown University finds that rainfall patterns across northern Africa remained largely stable ...

The Omo collection includes teeth attributed to Paranthropus, Australopithecus and Homo, the three most recent and well-known hominin genera. This allowed us to track the telltale pitting across ...

He was a minor king, yet Tutankhamun’s tomb might have been the most richly stocked of all in ancient Egypt. Now research is ...

The study questions the long-held belief that northern Africa became arid around 3 million years ago, which coincides with ...