If you happen to be a fossil cat, there are two main routes to get media attention. The first – be Smilodon. The celebrated sabercat is a media darling, and any major study about how this felid fed ...

DMANISI, Georgia — The discovery of a 1.8-million-year-old skull of a human ancestor buried under a medieval Georgian village provides a vivid picture of early evolution and indicates our family tree ...

A remarkably complete, roughly 1.8-million-year-old fossil skull with a surprising set of features adds key evidence to the controversial idea that early members of the Homo genus evolved as one ...

Putting together the pieces of a 1.8 million-year-old skull from the former Soviet republic of Georgia has led researchers to a surprising conclusion: Specimens that supposedly represent several early ...

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The discovery of a 1.8 million-year-old skull at Dmanisi in Georgia has revolutionized scientists' idea of human evolution. Paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson of the Institute of Human Origins at ...

1.8 million-year-old skull is exquisitely preserved One of five full or partial skulls uncovered in Dmanisi in nation of Georgia Suggests that some species thought to be separate are all from same ...

Beautifully preserved for about 1.8 million years, the Dmanisi fossil known as Skull 5 (left) has a small, primitive braincase — less than half the volume of our own. But the hominids’ bodies were ...

Researchers have traditionally used differences among fossilized remains of ancient humans to define separate species among the earliest members of our Homo genus — Homo erectus, Homo habilis, and ...