The H. habilis jaw was dated at 1.44 million years ago. That is the youngest ever found from a species that scientists originally figured died off somewhere between 1.7 and 2 million years ago ...

It's a discovery that could change our understanding of early humans. An incredibly well-preserved, 1.8-million-year-old skull from Dmanisi, Georgia ...

Three different Homo species existed between 2.1 and 1.6 million years ago: Homo erectus and Homo rudolfensis, as well as H. habilis.. The skull reconstruction caused a stir this week ...

A 1.5-million-year-old skull and an equally old jaw found in Kenya are helping rewrite the history of early man, eliminating one reputed ancestor from the human lineage and suggesting that another ...

The skull, known as KNM-ER 1470, sort of looked like H. habilis, ... Some anthropologists suggested the skull belonged to a male H. habilis and that’s why it was bigger.

In 2000 Leakey found an old H. erectus complete skull within walking distance of an upper jaw of the H. habilis, and both dated from the same general time period.

Notably, the world’s oldest known stone tools now appear more than 3 million years ago in the fossil record, which seems to be well before H. habilis. And scientists still aren’t sure what species ...

The other find from the same region was an "exquisitely preserved" skull that the Leakey ...

Scientists usually sort the African fossils into four species: H. habilis, H. rudolfensis, H. ergaster and H. erectus. A 1.8-million-year-old Homo erectus skull discovered in western Asia combines ...

Leakey later revised the age of KNM-ER 1470 to 1.9 million years, but even then, some scientists have argued that the skull’s features are much more humanlike than its contemporary, Homo habilis.

Their research, to be published in the journal Nature on Thursday, started with the discovery of an upper jawbone of H. habilis dating from 1.44 million years ago, more recent than any other ...

H. habilis had larger molars, an indication that the species ate more vegetation. ... The particularly small H. erectus skull, shown from above with a large skull from Olduvai ...