Scientists say a new, never-before seen species of human ancestor roamed the Earth as recently as one million years ago.

Over a million years ago, Homo erectus defied the extreme conditions of African deserts. A recent study reveals how this ancestor of humanity thrived in arid environments, long before Homo sapiens.

The external structure of the jaw does resemble H. ergaster however, it looks "a bit weird for Homo," says Clement Zanolli. He continued by comparing the two structures highlighting that SK 15 ...

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

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 ...

Although SK 15's external structure resembles H. ergaster, it looks "a bit weird for Homo," Zanolli said. For instance, SK 15 is extremely thick compared with any other Homo jaw.

A paleontologist journeys through Indonesia’s Riau Archipelago in search of our earliest ancestors, and uncovers how ...