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.

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers from UCT and the University of Copenhagen have made a groundbreaking discovery by analysing 2-million-year-old proteins from ancient hominins, revealing insights into biological sex ...

More information: Palesa P. Madupe et al, Enamel proteins reveal biological sex and genetic variability in southern African Paranthropus, Science (2025). DOI: 10.1126/science.adt9539 ...

A team of European and African researchers used a method known as paleoproteomics to recover fragments of proteins from the tooth enamel of four fossilized teeth found in the Swartkrans cave in South ...

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 ...

Paranthropus fossils generally thought to represent three species — P. aethiopicus and P. boisei in East Africa and P. robustus at several sites in South Africa — date to between about 2.7 ...

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 ...