This proved that the robust Australopithecus were grass eaters. The Changes in the Anatomy of Australopithecus ©Ji-Elle / Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license ...

Given that early humans Australopithecus and Paranthropus – the latter often called “robust australopithecines” – had broad faces with wide cheeks and thick brow ridges, they’re ...

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

This bone, called the ramus, looks much the same in A. afarensis, in a roughly 2-million-year-old robust australopithecine species known as Australopithecus robustus, and in modern gorillas, the ...

It was our relatives among the robust australopithecines – namely Paranthropus – which obviously developed the strongest jaws, but a new study just published in the Proceedings of the Royal ...

If Australopithecines were able to manipulate objects, it challenges our understanding of the timeline of human evolution. In sum, these discoveries open new perspectives on our history. Far from ...

O ne 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 ...

For the first time, scientists identified the sex of a 3.5-million-year-old Australopithecus africanus using ancient proteins, marking a milestone in the field of paleoanthropology. The study ...

Not much size difference between male and female Australopithecines Date: April 28, 2015 Source: Penn State Summary: Lucy and other members of the early hominid species Australopithecus afarensis ...

It was our relatives among the robust australopithecines - namely Paranthropus - which obviously developed the strongest jaws, but a new study just published in the Proceedings of the Royal ...

Natural history is a difficult thing to conceptualize. You’ve got eons of undocumented progress, like the evolution of many species. Take, for example, the Australopithecus, an ancient great ape ...