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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, according to ...

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

In the dry, rugged badlands of Ethiopia’s Afar Region, a team of scientists has uncovered fossils that could change how you picture human evolution. These finds, dating back between 2.6 and 2.8 ...