Strange 1.4 million-year-old fossil traced to previously unknown human relative 'nutcracker man’ - ‘Nutcracker man’ likely ...

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

It's time to rewrite the history textbooks, as a distant new member of our ancestral family tree has been discovered. Scientists say a new, never-before seen species of human ancestor roamed the ...

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

These species are classified as Paranthropus. This species of Australopithecus exhibited powerful chewing abilities. One fossil found in the Omo River of Ethiopia showed that these early humans ...

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

It comes from a new species of the genus Paranthropus, nicknamed the “nutcracker man” due to the fossil’s massive size and huge molar teeth. Photos of the fossil jaw (Lazarus Kgasi ...

At the time Paranthropus was alive, the world had several hominins, or species on the evolutionary branch more closely related to humans than to chimps. Our genus, Homo, emerged at least 2.8 ...