In 2012 fossils of 1.9m years-old Homo rudolfensis were discovered in?
Homo rudolfensis near Uraha, Malawi. It is a well-preserved jawbone assigned to "Homo habilis", dated to c. 2.4 Ma. In August 2012, a team led by Meave Leakey published an academic paper in "Nature" announcing three additional "H. rudolfensis" fossils from northern Kenya had been found: two jawbones with teeth and a face. The face (fossil KNM-ER 62000) was of a juvenile, but had features in common with KNM-ER 1470, suggesting that the latter skull's uniqueness is due to being a separate species, rather than a large male "H. habilis". Team member Fred Spoor described the face as "incredibly flat", with a
Homo rudolfensis Homo rudolfensis Homo rudolfensis (also "Australopithecus rudolfensis") is an extinct species of the Hominini tribe, on the morphological boundary between the genera "Homo" and "Australopithecus". Its oldest fossil is dated to 2.4 million years ago, at the very beginning of the Pleistocene, with the possible exception of the LD 350-1 representing the oldest fossil evidence of the emergence of archaic humans (the genus "Homo") from their australopithecine ancestors. "H. rudolfensis" is known only through a handful of representative fossils, the first of which was discovered by Bernard Ngeneo, a member of a team led by anthropologist Richard Leakey and zoologist