After comparing shapes, depths, and pressure patterns, this study found that two different hominin species left footprints in ...

Fresh analysis of ancient human footprints in New Mexico confirms that people walked the continent nearly 23,000 years ago, ...

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

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 ...

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

In the basement of Connecticut's Beneski Museum of Natural History sit the fossilized footprints of a small, chicken-sized ...