Imagine uncovering a piece of history that's been buried for millions of years– something that connects us to our distant ancestors and sheds light on where we all began. Fossils are like time ...

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

An international research team has announced the most complete fossil yet of Homo habilis (aka 'the handy man') – one of the ...

An international research team has unveiled a significant discovery in human paleontology: an exceptionally well-preserved Homo habilis skeleton dating back more than 2 million years.

But this latest discovery seems to challenge that. It appears that Paranthropus had greater dietary flexibility than first interpreted, could adapt to a wide range of environmental conditions and was ...

A fossilized human footprint found in southern Chile has been dated to 15,600 years ago, making it the oldest known footprint in the Americas. The discovery suggests that humans may have reached South ...

The newly described specimen is a partial left mandible plus a molar crown, dated to about 2.6 million years ago using multiple methods, making it one of the oldest Paranthropus fossils known. The ...