EarlyHumans. Homo Habilis: The First 'Humans' | Prehistoric Humans Documentary. Posted: June 18, 2025 | Last updated: June 18, 2025. Just less than two and a half million years ago, in the Early ...

The Homo genus began approximately 2.3 million years ago with Homo Habilis, the first species in this lineage, which led to modern humans, Homo sapiens sapiens. Fossils of Homo Habilis were found ...

Still, KNM-ER 1813 is similar to many of the accepted Homo habilis specimens from Olduvai Gorge. The similarities include overall size, smaller orbits, and sub-nasal prognathism (projection of the ...

Researchers have revealed the first partial skull of a Homo naledi child that was found in the remote depths of the Rising Star cave in Johannesburg, South Africa. The team announced the discovery ...

3D reconstruction of the fossil skull of the sub-adult early Homo from the Dmanisi site in Georgia. The green, orange and red colors represent the preserved teeth (imaged respectively with the ...

A human ancestor called Homo naledi lived in southern Africa between about 241,000 and 335,000 years ago. Anthropologists found the first skull belonging to a Homo naledi child deep in a cave.

Farmers Dug Up a Skull Unlike Any Human Ancestor Ryan Somma from Occoquan, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons ...

A third ancient human skull has been uncovered at a site in China. A 3D reconstruction of the second skull, discovered three decades ago and called Yunxian 2, is pictured.