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

Scientists have discovered an ancient skull in China, like no other they've seen before. The 300,000-year-old child skull was ...

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Paleontologists have finally solved the mystery behind an elusive “sword dragon” skeleton found on the U.K.’s Jurassic Coast.

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

A one-million-year-old skull discovered in central China could push back the origins of modern humans by at least half a ...

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