Recent fossil discoveries have revealed that two million years ago, one of our distant human ancestors, Paranthropus robustus ...

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 ago, ...

Live Science reports that bones from one of the smallest human ancestors, who lived two million years ago, were retrieved ...

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 ...

The left hip and leg bones from a young female Paranthropus robustus discovered in South Africa show she was extremely short — and ended up as a leopard's lunch.