Paranthropus was an ape-like hominin that survived alongside early humans for more than a million years. A fossilised leg ...

New fossil discoveries in South Africa's Swartkrans Cave shed new light on the physical characteristics and lifestyle of ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A new fossil discovery of Paranthropus robustus, an early human ancestor, reveals it was a habitual upright walker, similar to modern humans. The individual was ...

The species Paranthropus robustus was named in 1938, based on South African fossils. Although specimens have been found from six caves, all are tightly bunched in the Cradle of Humankind near ...

Researchers who found what they identified as a fossil of a Paranthropus robustus female, estimated she stood just under 3 feet 4.5 inches. That’s about half an inch shorter than the famous “Lucy” and ...

One of the smallest human relatives ever found has been unearthed in South Africa. Standing just 3 feet, 4.5 inches (1.03 meters) tall, the adult Paranthropus robustus, who died 2 million years ...

They found that the fossils belonged to a single, young adult Paranthropus robustus, which was much smaller than previously thought, making it highly vulnerable to predators. The study ...

About 2 million years ago, in South Africa, a prehistoric human species, Paranthropus robustus, shared its habitat with Homo ergaster, a direct ancestor of modern humans. A recent discovery in the ...

A team of researchers ... 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.

Unfortunately, Swartkrans has over the years yielded many fewer bones from the rest of the Paranthropus robustus skeleton, limiting our understanding of its stature, posture, and locomotion ...