Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering ...

A 1.4 million-year-old fossil jaw belongs to a previously unknown human relative from southern Africa, a new study finds. The ...

The new study revealed that the ancient jaw named SK 15 was originally unearthed in 1949 in a South African cave known as ...

Scientists say a new, never-before seen species of human ancestor roamed the Earth ... a mandible (lower jaw) discovered in Swartkrans cave, South Africa, back in April 1949.

Strange 1.4 million-year-old fossil traced to previously unknown human relative 'nutcracker man’ - ‘Nutcracker man’ likely ...

A newly classified Paranthropus species, P. capensis, has been identified from a 1.4 million-year-old jawbone.

A landmark study reporting the discovery of Australopithecus africanus one century ago put the African continent at the ...

Paranthropus capensis, a “gorilla-like” human relative that lived in southern Africa some 1.4 million years ago. A new study focuses on a hominin jawbone known as SK 15 that was unearthed in 1949 at ...

Experts say it means that there may have been several species of early human living in Asia until modern humans arrived 55,000 years ago. The fossilised jawbone is the first ancient hominin ...

The jawbone is currently recorded as a modern human, an identification that goes back to 1927. If this identification can be proven then this fossil indicates that modern humans or Cro-Magnons ...