In the region near Lake Victoria, archaeologists have uncovered ancient stone tools that could rewrite the history of early ...

Researchers have extracted 2-million-year-old protein remains from Paranthropus robustus teeth to reveal biological sex and genetic variability.

Illustration of a group of Homo habilis. Credit: World of Paleoanthropology Thanks to a study that analyzed fossilized fragments of baby jaws dating back two million years, scientists are rewriting ...

He called it Homo habilis, or handy man, a reference to the stone tools at the site that Leakey was convinced the creature had made, and he believed it to be the ancestor of modern humans, Homo ...

Researchers believe that Paranthropus lived alongside other early human species, like Homo habilis, occupying a different ecological niche thanks to their specialized eating habits. Dietary evolution ...

Analyzing the chemistry of some ancient teeth has revealed what human ancestors were eating around 3 million years ago.

Though general consensus is that Homo erectus is an ancestor of Homo sapiens, Paranthropus has a different story. Paranthropus is an extinct human relative with a broad face and the largest teeth ...

With its tiny brain case and chimplike wristbones, the hobbit may be more closely related to small-bodied hominins such as Homo habilis, only known from Africa, others have argued.

A new study in Nature Communications co-authored by Griffith University reports the discovery of extremely rare early human fossils from the Indonesian island of Flores, including an astonishingly ...

In a discovery that rewrites our understanding of human evolution, scientists have unearthed extraordinarily rare fossils on the Indonesian island of Flores, including an adult limb bone so tiny it ...