New Fossil Discovery Challenges Assumptions About Early Human Size

Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was also extremely small and vulnerable to predators. Paranthropus robustus was a prehistoric hominin species that lived in what is now South Africa approximately two million years ago. It coexisted with Homo ergaster, a direct ancestor of modern humans. Fossils of Paranthropus […] Read More