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

Ancient footprints in Kenya reveal that eight Paranthropus boisei may have traveled together 1.4 million years ago, with some ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Fossilised tracks show all-male group on the move, suggesting females had separate roles in the earliest hominin communities ...

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 ...