They also proved that our ancestors outgrew the ‘cradle of mankind’ in east Africa ... skull a male face based on the ‘robust ...

In Ethiopia, they found hominid skull, jaw, and arm bones plus a few teeth that dated back to 4.4 million years ago. That would make these the oldest hominid ancestors yet identified, and the most ...

The 2 million-year-old fossil skull, excavated over a five-year period in South Africa ... where we are the only human species, 2 million years ago our direct ancestor was not alone," Herries ...

Paranthropus robustus was a species of prehistoric human that lived in South Africa about 2 million years ago, alongside Homo ergaster, a direct ancestor ... some of the skulls and teeth of ...

In a discovery that could rewrite the story of human evolution, scientists working in South Africa have uncovered the ... in our evolutionary story from small brained bipedal apes to larger brained ...

Researchers believe that members of the human family - hominids - and African apes once had a common ancestor ... He found the skull of a six year old creature with an ape-like appearance but ...

The angle at which the child's spine had joined its skull suggested to Dart that it had walked upright, though its brain was not ... In 1974, Lucy showed that human ancestors were up and walking ...

Members of the species Palaeoloxodon turkmenicus greatly exceeded the size of modern African ... alongside the skull have ...

How did humans evolve into the big-brained ... ancestor with chimpanzees and bonobos sometime around 6 million years ago (mya). We begin this discussion of our species' evolution in Africa ...

South Africa’s limestone ... determined that two holes in the skull were made by an eagle’s talons.) Prior to Dart’s discovery, scientists thought human ancestors emerged in Europe or ...

His most prized find since joining the excavation team in 2013 was an early human hand bone. His father was part of the team that uncovered South Africa’s most famous find, a skeleton dubbed ...