Almost 2 million years ago, a young ancient human died beside a spring near a lake in what is now Tanzania, in eastern Africa ...

Found in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge, Homo habilis marked the dawn of the human genus. Known as the “handy man,” this early ancestor carved the world’s first stone tools, shaping both the landscape and ...

A major fossil discovery about our ancient ancestor has occurred in Kenya. Researchers have found hand and foot bones belonging to Paranthropus boisei — an extinct human relative who lived over 1.5 ...

A set of footprints found at the site of Koobi Fora in Kenya reveals that our ancestor Homo erectus coexisted with a now-extinct bipedal hominin, Paranthropus boisei, 1.5 million years ago. When you ...

Almost 2 million years ago, a young ancient human died beside a spring near a lake in what is now Tanzania, in eastern Africa. After archaeologists uncovered his fossilized bones in 1960, they used ...