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 ...
In this 4.4-million-year-old skeleton, scientists may have found the missing step between climbing and walking.
Traditionally, paleoanthropologists believed that Homo habilis, as the earliest big-brained humans, was responsible for the earliest sites with tools. The idea has been that Homo habilis was the ...
Almost 2 million years ago, a young ancient human died beside a spring near a lake in what is now Tanzania, in eastern Africa ...
Cliff-rappelling scientists uncovered a crossbow bolt, part of a slingshot and 25 shoes in ancient vulture nesting sites ...
The fossils indicate that P. boisei ’s human-like hand proportions would have allowed it to handle stone tools with dexterity ...
An analysis of bones from ancient people who once lived in Colombia has discovered DNA that does not directly connect them to ...
The extinct animal's face structure could help explain how vertebrates, including ourselves, evolved our distinctive look.
In a remarkable discovery along the Kalambo River in Zambia, archaeologists have uncovered a wooden structure that challenges ...
In a 1970 National Geographic feature, paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey—son of Louis and Mary Leakey—recounted his ...
A human bone found along the Whitewater River in Fayette County has been dated to about 2,245 B.C. Fayette County Coroner Eddie Richardson said a preliminary analysis on a portion of a human skull ...
A rock hound found a human skull in a Carbon County cave Sunday, prompting a sheriff’s investigation. Authorities say it may ...
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