For decades, Paranthropus boisei, an early hominin that roamed eastern Africa a million years ago, was known for its gigantic ...

Many paleoanthropologists view Homo ergaster, meaning "working man," as a turning point in our evolutionary story. That's ...

When we think of lead poisoning, most of us imagine modern human-made pollution, paint, old pipes, or exhaust fumes.

Uranium dating places the age of the Petralona skull at 300,000 years, revealing a human lineage distinct from Neanderthals ...

After comparing shapes, depths, and pressure patterns, this study found that two different hominin species left footprints in ...

Learn more about the archaeological discovery of an ancient elephant carcass surrounded by hundreds of butchery tools.

Early humans were not the feared masters of the savanna long imagined. On the contrary, some still served as meals for big ...

“The hand shows it could form precision grips similar to ours, while also retaining powerful grasping capabilities more like ...

Long before factories, mines, and cars filled the air with pollution, our distant ancestors were already living with a silent ...

Hand fossils confirmed to belong to Paranthropus boisei species show that it had manual dexterity advanced enough to grasp ...

For more than half a century, scientists have debated whether Paranthropus boisei, an extinct human relative known for its ...

Homo habilis was thought to be the first hominin to use stone tools for hunting and processing meat, but they might have been prey instead of predators.