New Fossil Discovery Challenges Assumptions About Early Human Size
Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was also extremely small and ...
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Leopard Dined on the Shortest-Ever Early Human Relative, 2 Million Years Ago
Learn more about how Paranthropus robustus lived 2 million years ago, an evolutionary cousin to humans.
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Smallest human relative ever found may have been devoured by a leopard 2 million years ago
The left hip and leg bones from a young female Paranthropus robustus discovered in South Africa show she was extremely short ...
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15 Years Later, the National Museum of Natural History Is Still Asking What It Means to Be Human
Koch Hall of Human Origins,” which opened 15 years ago. Smithsonian's Human Origins Program. What does it mean to be human ...
We modeled how early human ancestors ran—and found they were surprisingly slow
Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels ...
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New Fossil Discovery Reveals Surprising Insights into Prehistoric Human Behavior
making it even smaller than adults from other diminutive early human species, including those represented by the famous ‘Lucy.'" The new fossils have also confirmed another suspicion about ...
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Unveiling secrets of the Swartkrans Cave | new fossils of a tiny human ancestor
A groundbreaking fossil discovery at Swartkrans ... adults from other diminutive early human species, including those represented by the famous ‘Lucy’ (Australopithecus afarensis, about ...
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Ancient humans used bone tools one million years earlier than thought
Members of the genus Australopithecus — which includes the famed fossil Lucy — were making stone ... erectus — a small-brained predecessor to species including modern humans and Neanderthals ...