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

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 ...

The Megalosaurus is essential to paleontology. Learn what discoveries made this dinosaur important.

The Piltdown fossils, including a portion of the skull ... It had a small brain, yet a human-like jaw. But mostly, it came from Africa, and many European scientists preferred to have England ...

Researchers say they have identified a new species of ancient hominin, Homo juluensis, that could help solve another big mystery of human evolution. Their proposal is sparking debate in the scientific ...

Researchers have believed since the 1960s that the fossil jaw, unearthed at the Swartkrans archaeological site, belonged to an early human species called Homo ergaster. But new X-ray scans of the ...

A cache of human-like fossils from China has perplexed ... teeth contained in a jawbone found in the early 1980s on the Tibetan plateau, at a site where researchers in 2020 also found DNA in ...

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 unknown human relative species dubbed the “nutcracker man”.

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 unknown human relative species dubbed the “nutcracker man”.