Until now, scientists knew of three Paranthropus species — P. aethiopicus, P. boisei and P. robustus — which lived between about 1 million and 2.7 million years ago. In the new study ...

Researchers uncovered the fossilized jawbone of a species dated 1.4-million-year-old, known as Paranthropus, from a cave in southern Africa. The jaw was discovered in 1949 within the Swartkrans ...

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 ...