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

For more than a century, scientists have been piecing together the puzzle of human evolution, examining fossil evidence to ...

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

When we think of lead poisoning, most of us imagine modern human-made pollution, paint, old pipes, or exhaust fumes.

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

A million-year-old skull from China, Yunxian 2, reshapes our understanding of human origins and ancient human relatives.

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

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

In partnership with Axis Research & Technologies, the university intends to build a 36,000-square-foot surgical center with ...

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

Lead exposure may have spelled evolutionary success for humans—and extinction for our ancient cousins—but other scientists ...

The Deadly Precision of Aircraft Carrier Flight Decks The flight deck of an aircraft carrier is widely regarded as one o ...