New fossils reveal the hand bones of Paranthropus boisei, proving this early human ancestor could make and use tools.
Long before the first sparks of civilization — or even humanity as we know it — our ancestors were already inventors. On the ...
A newly discovered Neanderthal site on Portugal’s Algarve coast has revealed the first fossilized footprints of these ancient humans in the region. A new international study published in Scientific ...
This is the story of Ardi (Ardipithecus ramidus), one of our special ancestors called hominis. The discovery of her ...
In 1975, a skinny Hampshire College kid making his first movie, a documentary about rural life in the early 1800s, hauled his ...