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

For the past two decades, scientists have been manipulating genes to grow human cells where you wouldn’t quite expect them.

Paranthropus was part of a line of close human relatives known as australopithecines ... as suggested by bigger jaw and teeth. 'P. capensis, which displays smaller teeth and a less robust ...

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

A 1.4-million-year-old fossil jaw discovered in a South African cave in 1949 has now been identified as that of a previously ...

Researchers have believed since the 1960s that the fossil jaw, unearthed ... forms the bulk of a tooth below the enamel – and then compared it with those of other human relatives.

About 19,000 years ago, a woman from a group of hunter-gatherers died and was buried in a cave in northern Spain. In 1996, ...

R esearchers have developed a way to grow human-sized tooth-like tissues in the mouths of pigs – this may be a lot to chew on ...

Hominid footprints found on Crete date back 5.6 million years, making them by far the oldest ever discovered in Europe.