For more than 50 years, since the discovery of the skull of Paranthropus boisei, an extinct human relative known for its extremely powerful jaws and massive teeth, ...

An analysis of stone tools found in Italy and Lebanon indicates that around 42,000 years ago, modern humans in Europe and the ...

Recent discoveries have unveiled a fascinating chapter in human history, as stone tools provide compelling evidence of ...

Miniaturized stone tools have long been recognized as hallmarks of human adaptation, but their role in South China has remained scarcely investigated.

More than a million years ago, early human relatives crossed an enormous sea to reach the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The ...

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

The new work suggests that scavenging persisted among humans long after hunting emerged. So while it has long been argued ...

“The hand shows it could form precision grips similar to ours, while also retaining powerful grasping capabilities more like ...

A new exhibition at Whanganui Regional Museum invites visitors to journey through time to explore the evolution of ancient ...

Researchers say the remains of ‘Paranthropus boisei’ reveal that this ancient relative was capable of powerfully manipulating objects and food, climbing trees, and perhaps making tools ...

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

Hand fossils unearthed in Kenya reveal that an extinct human relative called Paranthropus boisei had unexpected dexterity and ...