New fossil discoveries in South Africa's Swartkrans Cave shed new light on the physical characteristics and lifestyle of Paranthropus robustus, a species of prehistoric human that lived about two ...

Paranthropus robustus was a species of prehistoric human that lived in South Africa about 2 million years ago, alongside Homo ...

Archaeologists in southwestern Kenya have uncovered stone tools that are estimated to be up to 3 million years old. These tools, which may be the oldest of their kind ever discovered, were found near ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. However, after travelling to several large institutes and museums ...

Nutcracker Man, officially called Paranthropus boisei, roamed across East Africa 1.4 million to 2.4 million years ago, living alongside the direct ancestors of humanity. It earned its nickname because ...

Oldowan tools are some of the oldest known in the archaeological record; made of conveniently shaped rocks or crafted from knapped stones, these tools made it possible for hominin species to survive ...

Analysis of wear patterns on fossil teeth from East African hominins suggests the diets of Paranthropus aethiopicus and Paranthropus boisei were softer than had been thought, according to a study ...

Around 1.5 million years ago, four walkers traversed the muddy shore of a lake, leaving footprints. If they did not cross paths, they would have missed each other narrowly — probably by hours if not ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

It's time to rewrite the history textbooks, as a distant new member of our ancestral family tree has been discovered. Scientists say a new, never-before seen species of human ancestor roamed the Earth ...

These findings open a new window into human evolution – one that could reshape how we interpret diversity in our early ancestors by providing some of the oldest human genetic data from Africa. From ...

New research debunks a long-held belief about our ancestors' eating habits. New research from the University of Otago debunks a long-held belief about our ancestors' eating habits. For more than 60 ...