Experts have been puzzled by recently discovered fossils from the hand of an extinct human relative, Paranthropus boisei.

Recently discovered fossils of _Paranthropus boisei_, an extinct human relative, reveal a surprising mix of human-like and gorilla-like features in the fingers.

For more than half a century, scientists have debated whether Paranthropus boisei, an extinct human relative known for its ...

For decades, Paranthropus boisei, an early hominin that roamed eastern Africa a million years ago, was known for its gigantic ...

Some sixty years after her grandmother discovered “Nutcracker Man,” Louise Leakey unearths his long-lost hand—reviving a ...

Researchers have unearthed near Lake Turkana in northern Kenya fossils of hand and foot bones belonging to an extinct human ...

The first set of ancient hand fossils from an ape-like cousin of humans discovered in Kenya suggest a number of species were capable of making tools 1.5 million years ago.

Decades after the discovery of the Oldowan toolkit, we’re still waiting for the species responsible to put their hand up.

The fossils indicate that P. boisei ’s human-like hand proportions would have allowed it to handle stone tools with dexterity ...