Learn about the most complete Homo habilis fossil ever found, and how this fossil is changing what we know about human ...

The 2-million-year-old partial skeleton may even represent the oldest example of H. habilis discovered so far. It includes a ...

Dust and sun define field seasons in East Turkana. So do patience and sharp eyes. In northern Kenya, a set of bones pulled from the ground has now changed what scientists can say about one of your ...

An international research team has unveiled a significant discovery in human paleontology: an exceptionally well-preserved ...

In the technical description, the authors emphasize that the skeleton includes clavicle and shoulder-blade fragments, both upper arms, both forearms, plus part of the sacrum and hip bones - rare ...

A new analysis of enigmatic skulls from the Republic of Georgia suggest that Homo erectus wasn't the only human species to ...

Paleoanthropologists have announced the world's most complete skeleton of Homo habilis, a human ancestor that lived more than ...

A team of international scientists, led by Dr. Karen Baab, a paleoanthropologist at the College of Graduate Studies, Glendale Campus of Midwestern University in Arizona, produced a virtual ...

Fossils from Morocco, dated to 773,000 years ago, reveal an early Homo sapiens lineage, shedding light on Africa’s role in ...

Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Muddy footprints left on a Kenyan lakeside suggest two of our early human ancestors were nearby neighbors some 1.5 million years ago. The footprints were left in the mud by two ...

Homo erectus was able to adapt to and survive in desert-like environments at least 1.2 million years ago, according to a paper published in Communications Earth & Environment. The findings suggest ...