Researchers have unearthed near Lake Turkana in northern Kenya fossils of hand and foot bones belonging to an extinct human ...

The first almost complete set of hand bones from the ancient human relative Paranthropus boisei has been found, revealing a ...

Hand fossils unearthed in Kenya reveal that an extinct human relative called Paranthropus boisei had unexpected dexterity and gorilla-like strength.

Fossil teeth unearthed in Ethiopia suggest two distinct human ancestor species lived alongside each other between 2.6 and 2.8 million years ago, reshaping what is known about our evolution. The 13 ...

A million-year-old skull from China, Yunxian 2, reshapes our understanding of human origins and ancient human relatives.

Archaeologists uncovered teeth from an ancient human ancestor in Ethiopia's Afar Region. - Amy Rector/Virginia Commonwealth University Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long ...

That would make Yunxian 2 one of the group’s oldest known ... account for perplexing fossils that could not be conveniently categorized, and it supports the case for Asia being a main stage of human ...

Researchers used sophisticated scanning and digital reconstruction techniques to determine the original shape of the skull, ...

Around 165 million years ago, a bizarre, armored dinosaur roamed the floodplains of North Africa. The unusual, 13-foot creature, named Spicomellus afer by paleontologists, was adorned with ...

The findings have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said.