Analysis - For nearly a century, scientists have been puzzling over fossils from a strange and robust-looking distant relative of early humans: Paranthropus robustus. It walked upright, and was built ...

Scientists made a surprising discovery when studying fossils of a distant human relative – Paranthropus robustus ...

Imagine you're an alien living in the Andromeda galaxy, 2.5 million light-years away, peering back at Earth through a massive ...

The Harbin skull (left) and the Dali skull (right).

These newly discovered dates, identified through a new dating method, indicate that the fossils found at the Sterkfontein caves date from the very beginning of the Australopithecine era, rather ...

The Australopithecus africanus specimen is the oldest hominin analyzed for sex using palaeoproteomics.

Australopithecus came before us, but that doesn't tell us which specific individual species is our ancestor. The fossil record is spotty in places, but the latest finds could give us enough clues ...

Australopithecus was a hominin—a human-like mammal—that walked on two legs but had smaller brains than Neanderthals and modern humans.

New research provides the first direct evidence of whether Australopithecus, an important early human ancestor, consumed meat or plant-based diet.

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New research shows Australopithecus, an early human ancestor, likely consumed little to no meat, challenging previous assumptions.