Ancient proteins reveal new insights into Paranthropus robustus fossilsFossil protein analysis shows both sexes and ...

For nearly a century, scientists have been puzzling over fossils from a strange and robust-looking distant relative of early ...

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 ...

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).

Two-million-year-old teeth transform theory of prehistoric human evolution Changes in the appearance of ancient teeth could act as a new evolutionary marker, writes Ian Towle ...

The uniform pitting appears regularly in both eastern and southern Africa Paranthropus, and also in the earliest eastern African Australopithecus teeth dating back around 3 million years.

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

A landmark study reporting the discovery of Australopithecus africanus one century ago put the African continent at the centre of the story of humanity.

“But Australopithecus was the first genuinely new piece of evidence. And it clearly showed that this idea, Darwin’s idea of human origins, was backward,” says Hawks.