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 ...

A 1.4 million-year-old fossil jaw belongs to a previously unknown human relative from southern Africa, a new study finds. The extinct human relative is from the genus Paranthropus, whose nickname is ...

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 ...

In the relentless search to know how the ancestors of humans ... at least 1.95 million years ago. Clues on their presence were recently found by researchers at an archaeological site in Romania that ...

Ancient Fossilized Jawbone Reveals Unknown Human Ancestor, Belongs to 1.4 Million-Year-Old 'Nutcracker Man’ Researchers ...

Over a million years ago, Homo erectus defied the extreme conditions of African ... Olduvai Gorge 2011. Between 1.2 and 1 million years BCE, the Oldupai region was dominated by semi-desert plains.

Despite a prolific career composing soundtracks for hit movies and TV shows, one of Mark Mothersbaugh's most lucrative pieces of music is a song he wrote nearly 50 years ago. The composer ...

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.

With high confidence dating to 1.95 million years ago, it challenges established timelines and opens new debates about the pathways and adaptability of early human populations. The findings could ...

The subject of when early ... humans, first left Africa to begin their slow dispersal across the globe is a matter of ongoing discussion among anthropologists. The general consensus has been that ...