The site, an eroded limestone cave called Malapa, is in a region ... boy's skull and on the woman's jaw near the chin—something never before seen in a hominin fossil. "Wow!" ...

The contentious fossil of a jaw fragment was apparently collected by miners working at the Sidi Chennane phosphate mines in Morocco, in rock that is 66 to 72 million years old. Nick Longrich at ...

Researchers spent a great deal of time analyzing the jaw fossil to ensure it belonged to a human and not a Neanderthal, which was among modern man’s predecessors. Beyond helping to reshape the ...

The newly discovered fossil is thought to belong to the same ... Getty Images Scientists in China have uncovered a fossilized jaw fragment of a newly identified, extinct cat species that was ...