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

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

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

The founder of the OpenAI-backed company said a science fiction-like future, where robots can reproduce and colonize the ...

A 12-year-old’s fossilized jawbone found in the Hualongdong region of China may belong to an entirely new human species. Blending features of Homo sapiens and Denisovans, the specimen suggests modern ...

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

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

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

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