For decades, Paranthropus robustus has intrigued scientists as a powerful, big-jawed cousin of early humans. Now, thanks to ancient protein analysis, researchers have cracked open new secrets hidden ...

The Omo-Turkana Basin, where the Omo River drains into Lake Turkana in Africa, has been one of the three most valuable ...

Researchers found that ancient hominids—including early humans—were exposed to lead throughout childhood, leaving chemical ...

Archaeologists in Israel have found a rare ancient figurine depicting an explicit scene - a goose attempting to mate with a ...

In a fossil first, researchers have announced the discovery of 1.5 million-year-old footprints that prove two different ...

A fascinating fossil discovery in Kenya is changing how scientists see Paranthropus boisei, an ancient human relative that lived about 1.5 million years ago. For the first time, researchers have found ...

The fossils themselves are modest in appearance. A juvenile lower jaw packed with baby and emerging adult teeth, several ...

Research teams from the Academia Sinica and National Taiwan University have documented the first discovery of five freshwater mollusk species in the Early Pleistocene Tananwan Formation of northern ...

Fossils newly discovered in Ethiopia indicate that previously unidentified foot bones belong to the ancient human relative ...

The Omo-Turkana basin in Africa is home to a treasure trove of ancient human fossils and tools that span 300,000 years – today it is still yielding new discoveries about our species ...