Fossilized teeth show that two different kinds of ancient human ancestors coexisted more than 2 million years ago. One of ...

The find suggests that as many as four different hominin lineages lived in eastern Africa between 2.5 million and 3 million ...

Paranthropus had distinctive traits that make them a key part of our evolutionary story. This video explains their ...

Protein evidence reveals hidden variation in P. robustus. The species may be more complex than once believed. For close to a ...

Afar region in Ethiopia reveals a fascinating discovery. Fossils of multiple human ancestor species are unearthed. These ...

Dive into the world of our ancient cousins and discover the key differences between Paranthropus and Homo. Understanding these species helps us learn more about where we come from.

On Valentine’s Day in 2018, a team of scientists walked across a flat expanse in the badlands of northeastern Ethiopia, ...

Omar Abdulla, a fossil hunter from Ethiopia, made an important discovery in the Afar region in 2018. He was accompanied by paleontologist Kaye Reed, when they came across several f ...

Hundreds of stone tools discovered in Kenya have revealed that human relatives traveled long distances to find raw material.

In southwestern Kenya more than 2.6 million years ago, ancient humans wielded an array of stone tools—known collectively as ...

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 ...

By Stephen Beech Man's ancestors transported stones over long distances to craft tools 2.6 million years ago - 600,000 years ...