The newfound species belongs to the genus
Paranthropus, whose nickname is "nutcracker man."

© Lazarus KgasiPhotos of the jaw of the putative newfound species, Paranthropus capensis.
A 1.4 million-year-old fossil jaw belongs to a
previously unknown human relative from southern Africa, a new study finds.
The extinct human relative is from the genus
Paranthropus, whose nickname is "nutcracker man" because of its massive jaws and huge molars. However, the newfound
Paranthropus species has a more diminutive jawbone and teeth, indicating that the nutcracker moniker might not be so apt after all.
At the time
Paranthropus was alive, the world had several hominins, or species on the evolutionary branch more closely related to humans than to chimps. Our genus,
Homo, emerged at least
2.8 million years ago, while our species,
Homo sapiens,
dates back to at least 300,000 years ago. So early Homo species overlapped with Paranthropus. Until now, scientists knew of three
Paranthropus species —
P. aethiopicus,
P. boisei and
P. robustus — which lived between about 1 million and 2.7 million years ago.
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
Paranthropus fossils and a few early
Homo specimens.
"Swartkrans is thus a key site to uncover the extent of hominin diversity and understand the potential interactions among various hominin species," study lead author
Clément Zanolli, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Bordeaux in France, told Live Science.
Initially, scientists thought SK 15 belonged to a never-before-seen species they called
Telanthropus capensis. However, since the 1960s, researchers suggested it actually belonged to the relatively slender early human species known as
Homo ergaster.
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