In 1949, a fossil jaw was discovered in a cave and has now been identified as belonging to a previously unknown human ...

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

Remarkable social behaviors have been discovered in Kinda baboons (Papio kindae) that set them apart from other baboon ...

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

Dec. 12, 2024 — Few genomes have been sequenced from early modern humans, who first arrived in ... finds that the disturbance-demanding plant species oak, hazel and yew were abundant in ...

Chemicals in the tooth enamel of Australopithecus suggest the early human ancestors ate very little meat, dining on vegetation instead.

Dr. Baumann and his colleagues hypothesize that ancient humans may have hunted and killed more animals than they could ...

New research suggests modern humans aren’t the only hominin species capable of “ecological flexibility” Sarah Kuta Daily Correspondent Our early human ancestors might have been more ...

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 ...

More than a million years ago, long before our species Homo sapiens emerged, early humans adapted to desert-like conditions. Kaplan was a co-author of the findings published Thursday in the ...

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

GREENFIELDBOYCE: His sense is that very early human species might be more vegetarian - and now, researchers have a new way to check.