"For days, the team meticulously excavated layers of rock dating back around 30 million years," Al-Ashqar recalls of the dig that yielded the fossilized skull bones. "Just as we were about to ...

In a rare find, a team of scientists in Egypt uncovered a nearly complete skull ... while digging in the Fayum Depression, a basin in the desert known as one of the most significant fossil ...

Paranthropus robustus fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal new insights into their diet, social structure, and survival 2 ...

A newly-described fossil skull has given paleontologists their best look yet at a hyaenodont with a meat-cleaving bite. Found in the 30 million-year-old rock of Egypt’s Fayum Basin, the ...

Scientists report that a fossil of a partial face from a early human ancestor in Spain is between 1.1 and 1.4 million years ...

Paranthropus robustus was a species of prehistoric human that lived in South Africa about 2 million years ago, alongside Homo ...

Now a desert, a team of paletontologists were digging through 30 million-year ... “The Fayum is one of the most important fossil areas in Africa,” Matt Borths, a study co-author and Curator ...

A newly discovered fossil of Paranthropus robustus, an early human relative, reveals that it walked upright like modern ...

Scientists report that a fossil of a partial face from a early human ancestor in Spain is between 1.1 and 1.4 million years old ...