The traditional labels Homo, Australopithecus and Paranthropus may no longer match the tangled relationships revealed by the ...

The human family tree may be due for a major rewrite. Researchers argue that Australopithecus and Paranthropus should be ...

Paranthropus was a strange prehistoric hominin that lived alongside early human ancestors across Africa for nearly two ...

Paranthropus robustus was a species of prehistoric human that lived in South Africa about 2 million years ago, alongside Homo ergaster, a direct ancestor of modern people. Fossils of Paranthropus ...

Recent advances in our understanding of human evolution challenge the way we currently name and classify our ancestors, ...

For much of the last century, the story of early technology seemed straightforward. The genus Homo made stone tools, and their appearance marked a turning point on the path that eventually led to ...

A new study could reshape human evolution by placing Australopithecus and Paranthropus within an expanded genus Homo.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researcher Kevin Hatala surveys fossilized footprints in sediments along the edge of an ancient lake thought to have been made by ...

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 ...

New research from the University of Otago, New Zealand, debunks a long-held belief about our ancestors' eating habits. For more than 60 years, researchers have believed Paranthropus, a close fossil ...