A fascinating fossil discovery in Kenya is changing how scientists see Paranthropus boisei, an ancient human relative that ...

Stone tools reveal that the First Americans followed a coastal route from East Asia, linking both sides of the Pacific during the Ice Age.

Long before there were maps or names for continents, a handful of people stood at the edge of the world. Picture them on a ...

For more than 50 years, since the discovery of the skull of Paranthropus boisei, an extinct human relative known for its extremely powerful jaws and massive teeth, ...

Traditionally, paleoanthropologists believed that Homo habilis, as the earliest big-brained humans, was responsible for the earliest sites with tools. The idea has been that Homo habilis was the ...

More than a million years ago, early human relatives crossed an enormous sea to reach the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The ...