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 ...

But it’s never been clear what species the bones belonged to or where they should sit in an increasingly complex human family tree ... previously unknown human ancestor? An extremely large ...

Our early human ancestor was capable of running ... died from a fall out of a tree. Seven years later, a virtual reconstruction of her leg and pelvic muscles — which are not preserved in ...

Scientists have found evidence that a sudden event in ancient forests gave rise to humankind’s early ancestors. The indirect ...

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 ...

A new group of ancient humans, the Juluren, has been proposed in Nature by Xiujie Wu of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Christopher Bae of the University of Hawai'i. These "large head people ...