Volcanic ash deposits above and below the bones at Casal Lumbroso date the carcass to around 404,000 years ago, during a warm ...

Many paleoanthropologists view Homo ergaster, meaning "working man," as a turning point in our evolutionary story. That's ...

Homo habilis was thought to be the first hominin to use stone tools for hunting and processing meat, but they might have been prey instead of predators.

Learn more about the archaeological discovery of an ancient elephant carcass surrounded by hundreds of butchery tools.

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

The first set of ancient hand fossils from an ape-like cousin of humans discovered in Kenya suggest a number of species were ...

Hand fossils confirmed to belong to Paranthropus boisei species show that it had manual dexterity advanced enough to grasp ...

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

Mammoths were not the only enormous beasts ancient humans hunted. Elephant ancestors were also on the menu. While analyzing ...

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

One spring, after a long winter, an aged elephant lay dying at the bank of a small stream near the coast of what is now ...

Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than six miles away from where they were found in southwestern Kenya. In southwestern Kenya more than 2.6 million years ago, ...