In the new study, researchers examined a 1.4 million-year-old jaw dubbed SK 15. The bone was originally unearthed in 1949 in a cave at a South African site known as Swartkrans, alongside other ...

This dinosaur’s skull was light as air but its mouth was packed with power—and a unique ability to quickly grow teeth. Here’s ...

A new study found that a 1.4 million-year-old jaw belonged to the genus Paranthropus from southern Africa. The exctinct spieces is nicknamed "nutcracker man" because of its huge jaws and molars.

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The jaw, too, looked more human than did that of Eoanthropus dawsoni, or Piltdown Man, a supposed ‘missing link’ between humans and other apes from Piltdown village, UK, described in 1912.