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.

A 700,000-year-old fragment of an adult humerus uncovered in 2013 has recently been classified as belonging to an early representative of a species once colorfully described as 'hobbits'. Smaller than ...

SWARTKRANS CAVE, SOUTH AFRICA—Live Science reports that bones from one of the smallest human ancestors, who lived two million years ago, were retrieved from the Swartkrans Cave in South Africa’s ...

An ancient human cousin may have buried its dead and carved symbols into cave walls, surprising findings for a creature with a small brain. NEW YORK — An ancient human cousin may have buried its dead ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A fragment of a hip bone from the newly discovered P. robustus skeleton from Swartkrans, South ...