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

Discoveries in the past two decades have added new branches to the human family tree, including species ... that some people share ancestry with today. Now, researchers are trying to solve the ...

More than three million years after her death, the early human ancestor known as Lucy is still divulging her secrets. In 2016, an autopsy indicated that the female Australopithecus afarensis, whose ...

She was believed to be the oldest human ancestor found until the discovery of "Toumai" in Chad in 2001—a skull dated to six ...

This may have included browsing for fruits, tree leaves and certain flowering ... an important early human ancestor that displayed a mix of ape-like and human-like traits, consumed very little ...

New research provides the first direct evidence that Australopithecus, an important early human ancestor that displayed ... included browsing for fruits, tree leaves and certain flowering plants ...

The 3.18-million-year-old remains of Lucy, one of the oldest human ancestors, will be displayed in Europe for the first time ever.

New research provides the first direct evidence that Australopithecus, an important early human ancestor that displayed ... included browsing for fruits, tree leaves and certain flowering plants ...