A 1.4-million-year-old fossil jaw discovered in a South African cave in 1949 has now been identified as that of a previously ...

For the first time, scientists have identified the sex of a 3.5-million-year-old Australopithecus africanus using ancient proteins. This breakthrough could transform our understanding of early human ...

Ancient Fossilized Jawbone Reveals Unknown Human Ancestor, Belongs to 1.4 Million-Year-Old 'Nutcracker Man’ Researchers uncovered the fossilized jawbone of a species dated 1.4-million-year-old, known ...

This new evidence is crucial in understanding how early humans lived, migrated, and evolved. This discovery of ancient footprints opens up broader questions about the diversity of early human species.

A Fossil First: Scientists Find 1.5-Million-Year-Old Footprints of Two Different Species of Human Ancestors at Same Spot Nov. 28, 2024 — More than a million years ago, on a hot savannah teeming ...

The hominin family tree may have a new twig: Paranthropus capensis, a “gorilla-like” human relative that lived in southern Africa some 1.4 million years ago ... of them as old, distant ...

She was believed to be the oldest human ancestor found until the discovery of "Toumai" in Chad in 2001 -- a skull dated to six or seven million years old. In a 2016 study, researchers said Lucy ...

The bone fragments of Lucy, a 3.18 million year-old human ancestor which rarely leave Ethiopia, will go on display in Europe ...

Researchers have extracted ancient proteins from australopithecine fossils and determined whether they were male or female — ...

1.4 million-year-old jawbone classified as Paranthropus capensis Discovery suggests multiple Paranthropus species coexisted Findings reshape understanding of early human evolution ...